6.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
75.1%
A vulnerability in Cisco Discovery Protocol packet processing
for the Cisco Nexus 1000v Application Virtual Switch (AVS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote
attacker to cause the ESXi hypervisor to crash and display a purple diagnostic screen, resulting
in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
# Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105836");
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:"2016-07-29 18:14:02 +0200 (Fri, 29 Jul 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.1");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-09-01 01:29:00 +0000 (Fri, 01 Sep 2017)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1465");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Cisco Nexus 1000v Application Virtual Switch Cisco Discovery Protocol Packet Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20160727-avs)");
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 Cisco Discovery Protocol packet processing
for the Cisco Nexus 1000v Application Virtual Switch (AVS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote
attacker to cause the ESXi hypervisor to crash and display a purple diagnostic screen, resulting
in a denial of service (DoS) condition.");
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 insufficient input validation of
Cisco Discovery Protocol packets, which could result in a crash of the ESXi hypervisor due to an
out-of-bound memory access.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a
crafted Cisco Discovery Protocol packet to a targeted device. An exploit could allow the attacker
to cause a 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-20160727-avs");
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( "1000V" >< nx_model ) {
affected = make_list(
"4.0(4)SV1(1)",
"4.0(4)SV1(2)",
"4.0(4)SV1(3)",
"4.0(4)SV1(3a)",
"4.0(4)SV1(3b)",
"4.0(4)SV1(3c)",
"4.0(4)SV1(3d)",
"4.2(1)SV1(4)",
"4.2(1)SV1(4a)",
"4.2(1)SV1(4b)",
"4.2(1)SV1(5.1)",
"4.2(1)SV1(5.1a)",
"4.2(1)SV1(5.2)",
"4.2(1)SV1(5.2b)",
"4.2(1)SV2(1.1)",
"4.2(1)SV2(1.1a)",
"4.2(1)SV2(2.1)",
"4.2(1)SV2(2.1a)",
"5.2(1)SV3(1.1)",
"5.2(1)SV3(1.3)",
"5.2(1)SV3(1.4)"
);
}
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 );
6.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
75.1%