Cisco IOS Software RADIUS Client Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20151005-ios-radius)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:ios";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105635");
  script_version("2026-02-02T05:59:28+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-02-02 05:59:28 +0000 (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-05-03 18:59:17 +0200 (Tue, 03 May 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-6263");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Cisco IOS Software RADIUS Client Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20151005-ios-radius)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_ios_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/ios/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the RADIUS client feature of Cisco IOS
  Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected
  device.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of malformed
  RADIUS packets returned by a RADIUS server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by
  configuring a RADIUS server with a shared RADIUS secret and returning malformed answers back to a
  RADIUS client on an affected Cisco device.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the
  affected device.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151005-ios-radius");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

affected = make_list(
  "15.4(3)M2.2" );

foreach af ( affected ) {
  if( version == af ) {
    report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version: "See advisory" );
    security_message( port:0, data:report );
    exit( 0 );
  }
}

exit( 99 );