CVE-2024-20446

Cisco NX-OS Software DHCPv6 Relay Agent Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
High 8.6
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.008
54.6th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Aug 28, 2024
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the DHCPv6 relay agent of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of specific fields in a DHCPv6 RELAY-REPLY message. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted DHCPv6 packet to any IPv6 address that is configured on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the dhcp_snoop process to crash and restart multiple times, causing the affected device to reload and resulting in a DoS condition.

Weakness: CWE-476

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software Routing & Switching cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (5)
  • Cisco · Cisco NX-OS Software
  • cisco · nx-os
  • cisco · nx-os
  • cisco · nx-os
  • cisco · nx-os

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