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CVE-2013-5566

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Memory corruption
5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Cisco NX-OS 5.0 and earlier on MDS 9000 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (supervisor CPU consumption) via Authentication Header (AH) authentication in a Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) frame, aka Bug ID CSCte27874.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.