CVE-2021-1620

HIGH

Cisco IOS - Denial of Service via IKEv2 AutoReconnect IP Address Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) support for the AutoReconnect feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to exhaust the free IP addresses from the assigned local pool. This vulnerability occurs because the code does not release the allocated IP address under certain failure conditions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by trying to connect to the device with a non-AnyConnect client. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust the IP addresses from the assigned local pool, which prevents users from logging in and leads to a denial of service (DoS) condition.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0103
EPSS Percentile 59.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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-772 CWE-563
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/ios 12.2\(6\)i1
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svr1
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svr2
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svr3
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svs
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svs1
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svt1
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svt2
cisco/ios 15.1\(3\)svu1
cisco/ios 15.2\(1\)sy2
... and 40 more
Published Sep 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026