CVE-2018-0174

HIGH KEV

Cisco IOS and IOS XE < 15.2(4a)ea5 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via DHCP Option 82 Encapsulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2018-0174 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added March 3, 2022.

Description

A vulnerability in the DHCP option 82 encapsulation functionality of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability exists because the affected software performs incomplete input validation of option 82 information that it receives in DHCP Version 4 (DHCPv4) packets from DHCP relay agents. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted DHCPv4 packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCuh91645.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103554
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-107-04
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-06
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040591
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-107-05

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0542
EPSS Percentile 90.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation active
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CISA KEV 2022-03-03
VulnCheck KEV 2022-03-03
InTheWild.io 2022-03-03
ENISA EUVD EUVD-2018-0997
CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (4)
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sre7a
cisco/ios < 15.2\(4a\)ea5
cisco/ios_xe 12.2\(33\)sre7a
cisco/ios_xe < 15.2\(4a\)ea5
Published Mar 28, 2018
KEV Added Mar 03, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026