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Cisco ASR 5000 Series ipsecmgr Service DoS (cisco-sa-20161116-asr)
high Nessus Plugin ID 95538
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Synopsis
The remote device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.Description
The remote Cisco ASR 5000 Series device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the ipsecmgr service of StarOS due to improper processing of Internet Key Exchange (IKE) messages. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability, via specially crafted IKE messages, to cause a reload of the ipsecmgr service, resulting in all active IPSEC tunnels being terminated and preventing new tunnels from establishing until the service has restarted.Solution
Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCva13631.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 95538
File Name: cisco-sa-20161116-asr.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Family: CISCO
Published: 12/5/2016
Updated: 8/7/2020
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6466
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:staros, cpe:/h:cisco:asr_5000
Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASR/Model, Host/Cisco/StarOS
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-6466
BID: 94361