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Cisco Telnet Denial of Service Vulnerability - Cisco Systems
medium Nessus Plugin ID 48977
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Synopsis
The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.Description
A specially crafted Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to a telnet or reverse telnet port of a Cisco device running Internetwork Operating System (IOS) may block further telnet, reverse telnet, Remote Shell (RSH), Secure Shell (SSH), and in some cases Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) access to the Cisco device. Data Link Switching (DLSw) and protocol translation connections may also be affected.Solution
Apply the relevant patch referenced in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20040827-telnet.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 48977
File Name: cisco-sa-20040827-telnethttp.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 9/1/2010
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: Host/Cisco/IOS/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2004
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2004
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/9/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2004-1464
BID: 11060