Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Common Industrial Protocol Denial of Service (cisco-sa-cipdos-hkfTZXEx)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138016

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco IOS XE Software is affected by a multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are due to insufficient input processing of CIP traffic. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending crafted CIP traffic to be processed by an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvo17827, CSCvp56319, CSCvr47365, CSCvr67776

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d0c4bbf1

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewErp.x?alertId=ERP-73388

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvo17827

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvp56319

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr47365

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr67776

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138016

File Name: cisco-sa-cipdos-hkfTZXEx-ios.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 6/3/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3225

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version, Host/Cisco/device_model

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3225

CWE: 20

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-cipdos-hkfTZXEx

IAVA: 2020-A-0239-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvo17827, CSCvp56319, CSCvr47365, CSCvr67776