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CVE-2018-0303 — A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol component of Cisco FXOS Software

A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code as root or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. The vulnerability exi

CVSS
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EPSS
0.39% (top 40.00%)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
2018-06-21T11:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-11-29T14:58:54.149Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code as root or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. The vulnerability exists because of insufficiently validated Cisco Discovery Protocol packet headers. An attacker could exploit this…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / Cisco FXOS and NXOS unknown — Cisco FXOS and NX-OS unknown

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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