CVE-2019-12654

HIGH

Cisco IOS XE - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via SIP Message Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the common Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) library of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanity checks on an internal data structure. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a sequence of malicious SIP messages to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a crash of the iosd process. This triggers a reload of the device.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0198
EPSS Percentile 78.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (3)
cisco/ios_xe 15.6\(1\)s4.2
cisco/ios_xe 16.3.8
cisco/ios_xe 16.9.1
Published Sep 25, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026