CVE-2024-20446

Aug. 29, 2024, 1:25 p.m.

CVSS Score

8.6 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

Cisco NX-OS Software

Description

A vulnerability in the DHCPv6 relay agent of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of specific fields in a DHCPv6 RELAY-REPLY message. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted DHCPv6 packet to any IPv6 address that is configured on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the dhcp_snoop process to crash and restart multiple times, causing the affected device to reload and resulting in a DoS condition.

Weaknesses

CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

CWE ID: 476

Date

Published: Aug. 28, 2024, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Aug. 29, 2024, 1:25 p.m.

Status : Undergoing Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

ykramarz@cisco.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
8.6
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References