CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-1231
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-02-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.9 LOW — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284, CWE-346
Description
A vulnerability in the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to disable switching on a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) interface. This vulnerability is due to incomplete validation of the source of a received LLDP packet. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted LLDP packet on an SFP interface to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to disable switching on the SFP interface, which could disrupt network traffic.
Affected configurations
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(1b\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(1c\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(1d\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(1e\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(2j\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(2m\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(3f\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(3i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(3k\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(3n\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(3o\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(4g\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(4h\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(4o\)
• cisco nx-os 11.0\(4q\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(1j\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(1o\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(1r\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(1s\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(2h\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(2i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(3f\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(4e\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(4f\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(4g\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(4i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(4l\)
• cisco nx-os 11.1\(4m\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(1i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(1k\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(1m\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(2g\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(2h\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(2i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(2j\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(3c\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(3e\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(3h\)
• cisco nx-os 11.2\(3m\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(1g\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(1h\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(1i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(1j\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(2f\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(2h\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(2i\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(2j\)
• cisco nx-os 11.3\(2k\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(1m\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(1n\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(1o\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(1p\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(1q\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(1r\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(2f\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(2g\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(2h\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(2l\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(2m\)
• cisco nx-os 12.0\(2n\)
… and 104 more