CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-15261

8.6 HIGH Published 2019-10-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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 Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) VPN packet processing functionality in Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) frames that pass through the data plane of an affected AP. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by associating to a vulnerable AP, initiating a PPTP VPN connection to an arbitrary PPTP VPN server, and sending a malicious GRE frame through the data plane of the AP. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an internal process of the targeted AP to crash, which in turn would cause the AP to reload. The AP reload would cause a DoS condition for clients that are associated with the AP.

Affected configurations

• cisco aironet 1810 firmware (>= 8.4 < 8.5.151.0) • cisco aironet 1810 firmware (>= 8.8 < 8.8.125.0) • cisco aironet 1810 firmware (>= 8.9 < 8.9.111.0) • cisco aironet 1830 firmware (>= 8.4 < 8.5.151.0) • cisco aironet 1830 firmware (>= 8.8 < 8.8.125.0) • cisco aironet 1830 firmware (>= 8.9 < 8.9.111.0) • cisco aironet 1850 firmware (>= 8.4 < 8.5.151.0) • cisco aironet 1850 firmware (>= 8.8 < 8.8.125.0) • cisco aironet 1850 firmware (>= 8.9 < 8.9.111.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References