Cisco NX-OS Software NX-API Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1968)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco NX-OS Software is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the NX-API of Cisco NX-OS Software due to incorrect validation of HTTP requests. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this, by sending a crafted HTTP request to the NX-API...

CVE-2019-1968

CVE-2019-1968 affects Cisco NX-OS Software NX-API. The vulnerability stems from incorrect validation of the HTTP header in requests to the NX-API, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a DoS by restarting the NX-API system process. The NX-OS device itself can still forward traffi...