CVE-2017-6770

MEDIUM

Cisco - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

Cisco IOS 12.0 through 15.6, Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 7.0.1 through 9.7.1.2, NX-OS 4.0 through 12.0, and IOS XE 3.6 through 3.18 are affected by a vulnerability involving the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Routing Protocol Link State Advertisement (LSA) database. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to take full control of the OSPF Autonomous System (AS) domain routing table, allowing the attacker to intercept or black-hole traffic. The attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting crafted OSPF packets. Successful exploitation could cause the targeted router to flush its routing table and propagate the crafted OSPF LSA type 1 update throughout the OSPF AS domain. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must accurately determine certain parameters within the LSA database on the target router. This vulnerability can only be triggered by sending crafted unicast or multicast OSPF LSA type 1 packets. No other LSA type packets can trigger this vulnerability. OSPFv3 is not affected by this vulnerability. Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) protocol is not affected by this vulnerability. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCva74756, CSCve47393, CSCve47401.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.2
EPSS 0.0058
EPSS Percentile 68.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/nx-os
cisco/nx-os
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_5500_platform_switches
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_5500_platform_switches
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_5600_platform_switches
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_5600_platform_switches
cisco/ios
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_7700_series_switches
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_7700_series_switches
cisco/nx-os_for_nexus_7700_series_switches
... and 40 more
Published Aug 07, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026