CVE-2017-6678

HIGH

Cisco Virtualized Packet Core - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

Description

A vulnerability in the ingress UDP packet processing functionality of Cisco Virtualized Packet Core-Distributed Instance (VPC-DI) Software 19.2 through 21.0 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause both control function (CF) instances on an affected system to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient handling of user-supplied data by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted UDP packets to the distributed instance (DI) network addresses of both CF instances on an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an unhandled error condition on the affected system, which would cause the CF instances to reload and consequently cause the entire VPC to reload, resulting in the disconnection of all subscribers and a DoS condition on the affected system. This vulnerability can be exploited via IPv4 traffic only. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc01665 CSCvc35565.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0048
EPSS Percentile 65.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-399 CWE-755
Status draft

Affected Products (6)

cisco/virtualized_packet_core
cisco/virtualized_packet_core
cisco/virtualized_packet_core
cisco/virtualized_packet_core
cisco/virtualized_packet_core
cisco/virtualized_packet_core

Timeline

Published Jun 26, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026