CVE-2017-6678

HIGH

Cisco Virtualized Packet Core-Distributed Instance 19.2-21.0 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Crafted UDP Packets

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99195

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0174
EPSS Percentile 74.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399 CWE-755
Status published
Products (7)
cisco/virtualized_packet_core v19.2_base
cisco/virtualized_packet_core v19.3_base
cisco/virtualized_packet_core v20.0_base
cisco/virtualized_packet_core v20.1_base
cisco/virtualized_packet_core v20.2_base
cisco/virtualized_packet_core v21.0_base
n/a/Cisco Virtualized Packet Core-Distributed Instance Cisco Virtualized Packet Core-Distributed Instance
Published Jun 26, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026