5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
5.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
60.3%
A vulnerability in Google-defined remote procedure call (gRPC)
handling in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the
Event Management Service daemon (emsd) to crash due to a system memory leak, resulting in a
denial of service (DoS) condition.
# Copyright (C) 2017 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:ios_xr";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106722");
script_version("2022-09-23T10:10:45+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-09-23 10:10:45 +0000 (Fri, 23 Sep 2022)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-04-07 10:30:46 +0200 (Fri, 07 Apr 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6599");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Cisco IOS XR Software Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170405-ios)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("CISCO");
script_dependencies("gb_cisco_ios_xr_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("cisco/ios_xr/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in Google-defined remote procedure call (gRPC)
handling in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the
Event Management Service daemon (emsd) to crash due to a system memory leak, 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 improper handling of gRPC requests.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed gRPC requests repeatedly to the
affected device.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the emsd process to
crash.");
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-20170405-ios");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
affected = make_list(
'6.1.1',
'6.2.1' );
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 );
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
5.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
60.3%