CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-20321

8.6 HIGH Published 2024-02-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-02-29
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])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Description

A vulnerability in the External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) implementation of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because eBGP traffic is mapped to a shared hardware rate-limiter queue. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending large amounts of network traffic with certain characteristics through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause eBGP neighbor sessions to be dropped, leading to a DoS condition in the network.

Affected configurations

• cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f1\(1\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f2\(1\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f2\(2\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(1\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(2\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(3\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(3a\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(3c\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(4\) • cisco nx-os 7.0\(3\)f3\(5\) • cisco nx-os 9.2\(1\) • cisco nx-os 9.2\(2\) • cisco nx-os 9.2\(2t\) • cisco nx-os 9.2\(2v\) • cisco nx-os 9.2\(3\) • cisco nx-os 9.2\(4\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(1\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(2\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(3\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(4\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(5\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(6\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(7\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(7a\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(8\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(9\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(10\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(11\) • cisco nx-os 9.3\(12\) • cisco nx-os 10.1\(1\) • cisco nx-os 10.1\(2\) • cisco nx-os 10.1\(2t\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(1\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(1q\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(2\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(3\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(3t\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(3v\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(4\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(5\) • cisco nx-os 10.2\(6\) • cisco nx-os 10.3\(1\) • cisco nx-os 10.3\(2\) • cisco nx-os 10.3\(3\) • cisco nx-os 10.3\(4a\) • cisco nx-os 10.3\(99w\) • cisco nx-os 10.3\(99x\) • cisco nx-os 10.4\(1\)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References