SB2020022711 - Denial of service in Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches
Published: February 27, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020022711
Severity
High
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-3175)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper resource usage control within the resource handling system. A remote attacker send traffic to the management interface (mgmt0) of an affected device at very high rates and cause unexpected behaviors such as high CPU usage, process crashes, or even full system reboots of an affected device.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.