CVE-2016-1409 Information

Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE 2.1 through 3.17S IOS XR 2.0.0 through 5.3.2 and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet-processing outage) via crafted ND messages aka Bug ID CSCuz66542 as exploited in the wild in May 2016.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160525-ipv6 http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-ipv6-en http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90872 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035962 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035963 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035964 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035965 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036651

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5