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CVE-2017-3878

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · Memory corruption
5.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

A Denial of Service vulnerability in the Telnet remote login functionality of Cisco NX-OS Software running on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a Telnet process used for login to terminate unexpectedly and the login attempt to fail. There is no impact to user traffic flowing through the device. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches that are running Cisco NX-OS Software and are configured to allow remote Telnet connections to the device. More Information: CSCux46778. Known Affected Releases: 7.0(3)I3(0.170). Known Fixed Releases: 7.0(3)I3(1) 7.0(3)I3(0.257) 7.0(3)I3(0.255) 7.0(3)I2(2e) 7.0(3)F1(1.22) 7.0(3)F1(1).

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

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

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.