Cisco Nexus 5500 / 5600 / 6000 SNMP DoS (cisco-sa-20160302-n5ksnmp)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89783

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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 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) service due to improper validation of SNMP Protocol Data Units (PDUs) in SNMP packets. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability, via a crafted SNMP packet, to cause the device to restart, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCut84645.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89783

File Name: cisco-sa-20160302-n5ksnmp-nxos.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 3/9/2016

Updated: 11/20/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2015-6260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

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: 3/2/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6260

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20160302-n5ksnmp

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCut84645

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