CVE-2023-20125 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Cisco Broadworks
Severity
8.6HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 44.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 15
Description
A vulnerability in the local interface of Cisco BroadWorks Network Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust system resources, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition.
This vulnerability exists because rate limiting does not occur for certain incoming TCP connections. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of TCP connections to the server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause TCP connection resources to grow rapidly unti…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.0