Description
A vulnerability in the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software for the Catalyst 9000 Family could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to inadequate input validation of incoming CAPWAP packets encapsulating multicast DNS (mDNS) queries. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to a wireless network and sending a crafted mDNS query, which would flow through and be processed by the wireless controller. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to crash and reload, resulting in a DoS condition.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-c9800-capwap-mdns-6PSn7gKU
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.0096
EPSS Percentile
76.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
CWE-690
Status
published
Products (50)
cisco/ios_xe
3.15.1xbs
cisco/ios_xe
3.15.2xbs
cisco/ios_xe
16.11.1
cisco/ios_xe
16.11.1a
cisco/ios_xe
16.11.1b
cisco/ios_xe
16.11.1c
cisco/ios_xe
16.11.1s
cisco/ios_xe
16.11.2
cisco/ios_xe
16.12.1
cisco/ios_xe
16.12.1a
... and 40 more
Published
Apr 15, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026