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OSPF LSA Manipulation Vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS (cisco-sa-20130801-lsaospf)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69379

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

The remote Cisco NX-OS device is affected by a vulnerability involving the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol Link State Advertisement (LSA) database. By injecting specially crafted OSPF packets, an unauthenticated attacker could manipulate or disrupt the flow of network traffic through the device.

Solution

Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20130801-lsaospf.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a643e96

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69379

File Name: cisco-sa-20130801-lsaospf-nxos.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 8/16/2013

Updated: 10/29/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/NX-OS/Version, Host/Cisco/NX-OS/Device, Host/Cisco/NX-OS/Model

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0149

BID: 61566

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20130801-lsaospf

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCug63304