CVE-2021-1285

HIGH

Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software - Denial of Service via Ethernet Frame Decoder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Ethernet Frame Decoder of the Snort detection engine that could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of error conditions when processing Ethernet frames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious Ethernet frames through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust disk space on the affected device, which could result in administrators being unable to log in to the device or the device being unable to boot up correctly.Note: Manual intervention is required to recover from this situation. Customers are advised to contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to help recover a device in this condition.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0167
EPSS Percentile 82.3%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (26)
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.12.1a
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.12.2
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.12.3
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.12.4
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.6.1
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.6.5
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.6.6
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 16.6.7a
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 17.1.1
Cisco/Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software 17.2.1r
... and 16 more
Published Nov 18, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026