Cisco IOS Telnet Service DoS (CSCef46191)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15627

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote router contains a version of IOS which has a flaw in the telnet service that could allow an attacker to disable the administation of the remote router by SSH, HTTP and telnet.

CISCO identifies this vulnerability as bug id CSCef46191.

An attacker may use this flaw to render this router unmanageable.

Solution

http://www.nessus.org/u?5bb6a85b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15627

File Name: CSCef46191.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/4/2004

Updated: 5/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2004-1464

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios

Required KB Items: SNMP/community, SNMP/sysDesc, CISCO/model

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2004

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1464

BID: 11060