Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Platform Manager Service DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82666

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Cisco Nexus device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the Platform Manager service, part of the SNMP subsystem, when the High Availability (HA) policy is configured to Reset. A remote, authenticated attacker can exploit this to trigger a device reload.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCuq92240.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82666

File Name: cisco-sn-CSCuq92240-nxos.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/9/2015

Updated: 11/22/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0686

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0686

BID: 73895

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCuq92240

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