CVE-2021-1625

MEDIUM

Cisco IOS XE < 17.3.2 - Unauthenticated Traffic Classification Bypass via ICMP/UDP Responder Flows

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Zone-Based Policy Firewall feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to prevent the Zone-Based Policy Firewall from correctly classifying traffic. This vulnerability exists because ICMP and UDP responder-to-initiator flows are not inspected when the Zone-Based Policy Firewall has either Unified Threat Defense (UTD) or Application Quality of Experience (AppQoE) configured. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to send UDP or ICMP flows through the network. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject traffic through the Zone-Based Policy Firewall, resulting in traffic being dropped because it is incorrectly classified or in incorrect reporting figures being produced by high-speed logging (HSL).

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.8
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 60.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/ios_xe < 17.3.2
Published Sep 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026