CVE-2010-4671
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.62%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package, aka Bug ID CSCti33534.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 3.62% probability · 89th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- cisco/ios
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdfBroken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdfBroken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.