CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-1446

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-03-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-24
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 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-754

Description

A vulnerability in the DNS application layer gateway (ALG) functionality used by Network Address Translation (NAT) in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to a logic error that occurs when an affected device inspects certain DNS packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted DNS packets through an affected device that is performing NAT for DNS packets. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability can be exploited only by traffic that is sent through an affected device via IPv4 packets. The vulnerability cannot be exploited via IPv6 traffic.

Affected configurations

• cisco ios xe 3.7.0bs • cisco ios xe 3.7.0s • cisco ios xe 3.7.0xas • cisco ios xe 3.7.0xbs • cisco ios xe 3.7.1as • cisco ios xe 3.7.1s • cisco ios xe 3.7.2s • cisco ios xe 3.7.2ts • cisco ios xe 3.7.3s • cisco ios xe 3.7.4as • cisco ios xe 3.7.4s • cisco ios xe 3.7.5s • cisco ios xe 3.7.6s • cisco ios xe 3.7.7s • cisco ios xe 3.7.8s • cisco ios xe 3.8.0s • cisco ios xe 3.8.1s • cisco ios xe 3.8.2s • cisco ios xe 3.9.0as • cisco ios xe 3.9.0s • cisco ios xe 3.9.0xas • cisco ios xe 3.9.1as • cisco ios xe 3.9.1s • cisco ios xe 3.9.2s • cisco ios xe 3.10.0s • cisco ios xe 3.10.1s • cisco ios xe 3.10.1xbs • cisco ios xe 3.10.1xcs • cisco ios xe 3.10.2as • cisco ios xe 3.10.2s • cisco ios xe 3.10.2ts • cisco ios xe 3.10.3s • cisco ios xe 3.10.4s • cisco ios xe 3.10.5s • cisco ios xe 3.10.6s • cisco ios xe 3.10.7s • cisco ios xe 3.10.8as • cisco ios xe 3.10.8s • cisco ios xe 3.10.9s • cisco ios xe 3.10.10s • cisco ios xe 3.11.0s • cisco ios xe 3.11.1s • cisco ios xe 3.11.2s • cisco ios xe 3.11.3s • cisco ios xe 3.11.4s • cisco ios xe 3.12.0as • cisco ios xe 3.12.0s • cisco ios xe 3.12.1s • cisco ios xe 3.12.2s • cisco ios xe 3.12.3s • cisco ios xe 3.12.4s • cisco ios xe 3.13.0as • cisco ios xe 3.13.0s • cisco ios xe 3.13.1s • cisco ios xe 3.13.2as • cisco ios xe 3.13.2s • cisco ios xe 3.13.3s • cisco ios xe 3.13.4s • cisco ios xe 3.13.5as • cisco ios xe 3.13.5s … and 205 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions weakness

References