CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-1353

8.6 HIGH Published 2021-01-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-01-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
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 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

A vulnerability in the IPv4 protocol handling of Cisco StarOS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a memory leak that occurs during packet processing. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of crafted IPv4 packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust the available memory and cause an unexpected restart of the npusim process, leading to a DoS condition on the affected device.

Affected configurations

• cisco staros (< 21.22.0) • cisco virtualized packet core-single instance

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References