CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
78.3%
A vulnerability in Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
authentication in the Cisco Nexus series could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to
affect the state of HSRP group members and cause black holing of traffic.
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CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105712");
script_version("2022-12-26T10:12:01+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-12-26 10:12:01 +0000 (Mon, 26 Dec 2022)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-05-12 16:36:13 +0200 (Thu, 12 May 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3295");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Cisco NX-OS Software HSRP Authentication Denial of Service Vulnerability (Cisco-SA-20140611-CVE-2014-3295)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("CISCO");
script_dependencies("gb_cisco_nx_os_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("cisco/nx_os/detected", "cisco/nx_os/device", "cisco/nx_os/model");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
authentication in the Cisco Nexus series could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to
affect the state of HSRP group members and cause black holing of traffic.");
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 incorrect parsing of malformed HSRP
packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed HSRP packets to bypass
HSRP authentication.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to bypass HSRP
authentication and affect the state of active HSRP group members, causing them to go to SPEAK
state, which leads to black holing of traffic and causes a denial of service (DoS) condition.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/Cisco-SA-20140611-CVE-2014-3295");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! device = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/device" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( "Nexus" >!< device )
exit( 0 );
if ( ! nx_model = get_kb_item( "cisco/nx_os/model" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( nx_model =~ "^C?7[0-9]+" ) {
affected = make_list(
"4.1.(2)",
"4.1.(3)",
"4.1.(4)",
"4.1.(5)",
"4.2(3)",
"4.2(4)",
"4.2(6)",
"4.2(8)",
"4.2.(2a)",
"5.0(2a)",
"5.0(3)",
"5.0(5)",
"5.1(1)",
"5.1(1a)",
"5.1(3)",
"5.1(4)",
"5.1(5)",
"5.1(6)",
"5.2(1)",
"5.2(3a)",
"5.2(4)",
"5.2(5)",
"5.2(7)",
"5.2(9)",
"6.0(1)",
"6.0(2)",
"6.0(3)",
"6.0(4)",
"6.1(1)",
"6.1(2)",
"6.1(3)",
"6.1(4)",
"6.1(4a)",
"6.2(2)",
"6.2(2a)"
);
}
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 );