CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-0378

8.6 HIGH Published 2018-10-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A vulnerability in the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) feature of Cisco Nexus 5500, 5600, and 6000 Series Switches running Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of protection against PTP frame flood attacks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending large streams of malicious IPv4 or IPv6 PTP traffic to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition, impacting the traffic passing through the device.

Affected configurations

• cisco nx-os 7.3\(2\)n1\(0.8\)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References