CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-0472
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-05
- 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 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 IPsec driver code of multiple Cisco IOS XE Software platforms and the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload. The vulnerability is due to improper processing of malformed IPsec Authentication Header (AH) or Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed IPsec packets to be processed by an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the affected device.
Affected configurations
• cisco ios xe 15.5\(3\)s5.36
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105418 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041735 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041737 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-19-094-04 ics-cert.us-cert.gov
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180926-ipsec Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105418 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041735 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041737 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-19-094-04 ics-cert.us-cert.gov
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180926-ipsec Vendor Advisory