CVE-2013-6701

Cisco ONS 15454 System Software <= 9.6 - Denial of Service via Network Traffic Flood

Title source: llm

Description

The tNetTaskLimit process on the Transport Node Controller (TNC) on Cisco ONS 15454 devices with software 9.6 and earlier does not properly prioritize health pings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (watchdog timeout and TNC reset) via a flood of network traffic, aka Bug ID CSCud97155.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029512

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_cisco

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-6701

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=32200

Scores

EPSS 0.0186

EPSS Percentile 76.7%

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (15)

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.0

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.1

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.2

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.2.1

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.2.2

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.3

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.4

cisco/cisco_ons_15454_system_software 9.6

cisco/ons_15454

cisco/ons_15454_mspp

... and 5 more

Published Dec 18, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026