CVE-2018-0381

MEDIUM

Cisco Aironet Series Access Points - Authenticated Denial of Service via SSID Transition Deadlock

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Aironet Series Access Points (APs) software could allow an authenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a deadlock condition that may occur when an affected AP attempts to dequeue aggregated traffic that is destined to an attacker-controlled wireless client. An attacker who can successfully transition between multiple Service Set Identifiers (SSIDs) hosted on the same AP while replicating the required traffic patterns could trigger the deadlock condition. A watchdog timer that detects the condition will trigger a reload of the device, resulting in a DoS condition while the device restarts.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041929
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105685

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 40.2%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400 CWE-667
Status published
Products (8)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.2\(166.0\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.2\(167.3\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.3\(133.0\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.3\(141.10\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.5\(120.0\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.7\(1.96\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.7\(1.99\)
cisco/aironet_access_points 8.7\(1.107\)
Published Oct 17, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026