A vulnerability in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Platform Leaf Switches for Application Centric Infrastructure could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 7 |
---|---|---|---|---|
CVE | CVE-2016-6457 | 19 Nov 201603:03 | – | cve |
OpenVAS | Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Denial of Service Vulnerability | 3 Nov 201600:00 | – | openvas |
Prion | Design/Logic Flaw | 19 Nov 201603:03 | – | prion |
Cvelist | CVE-2016-6457 | 19 Nov 201602:45 | – | cvelist |
Tenable Nessus | Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Denial of Service (CVE-2016-6457) | 25 Jul 202300:00 | – | nessus |
NVD | CVE-2016-6457 | 19 Nov 201603:03 | – | nvd |
Cisco | Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Denial of Service Vulnerability | 2 Nov 201616:00 | – | cisco |
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CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:nx-os";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106368");
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:"2016-11-03 13:46:04 +0700 (Thu, 03 Nov 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:3.1/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:"2021-12-14 20:59:00 +0000 (Tue, 14 Dec 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6457");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20161102-n9kapic)");
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 the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Platform Leaf
Switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent
attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on 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 handling of a type of
Layer 2 control plane traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted
traffic to a host behind a leaf switch.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition on
the affected device.");
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-20161102-n9kapic");
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?9[0-9]{3}" ) {
affected = make_list(
"11.2(2g)",
"11.2(2h)",
"11.2(2i)",
"11.2(3c)",
"11.2(3e)",
"11.2(3h)",
"11.3(1i)",
"11.3(2f)",
"11.3(2h)",
"11.3(2i)",
"12.0(1m)",
"12.0(1n)",
"12.0(1o)",
"12.0(1p)",
"12.0(1q)"
);
}
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 );
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