Cisco Warns Customers About Attacks Installing Malicious IOS Bootstrap Images

Cisco is warning enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use valid credentials on IOS devices to log in as administrators and then upload malicious ROMMON images to take control of the devices. The ROM Monitor is the program that initializes the hardware and software on IOS...

Evolution in Attacks Against Cisco IOS Software Platforms

Cisco has observed increasingly complex attacks that could allow an attacker to gain administrative access to a Cisco IOS device by installing a malicious ROMMON image. Successful exploitation using this image could allow an attacker to manipulate device behavior after the device is rebooted...

CVE-2001-0754

Cisco CBOS 2.3.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of large ICMP ECHO REPLY ping packets, which cause it to enter ROMMON mode and stop forwarding packets...

CVE-2001-0754

Cisco CBOS 2.3.8 and earlier is affected. A remote attacker can trigger a denial of service by sending a sequence of large ICMP ECHO REPLY (ping) packets that causes the device to enter ROMMON mode and stop forwarding packets. Affected component is the CBOS software on Cisco devices; the root cau...

CVE-2001-0754

Cisco CBOS 2.3.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of large ICMP ECHO REPLY ping packets, which cause it to enter ROMMON mode and stop forwarding packets...