CVE-2018-0295: Input Validation

First published: Wed Jun 20 2018(Updated: )

A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to the device unexpectedly reloading. The vulnerability is due to incomplete input validation of the BGP update messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BGP update message to the targeted device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the switch to reload unexpectedly. The Cisco implementation of the BGP protocol only accepts incoming BGP traffic from explicitly defined peers. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to send the malicious packets over a TCP connection that appears to come from a trusted BGP peer or inject malformed messages into the victim's BGP network. This would require obtaining information about the BGP peers in the affected system's trusted network. The vulnerability may be triggered when the router receives a malformed BGP message from a peer on an existing BGP session. At least one BGP neighbor session must be established for a router to be vulnerable. This vulnerability affects Nexus 2000 Series Switches, Nexus 3000 Series Switches, Nexus 3500 Platform Switches, Nexus 3600 Platform Switches, Nexus 5500 Platform Switches, Nexus 5600 Platform Switches, Nexus 6000 Series Switches, Nexus 7000 Series Switches, Nexus 7700 Series Switches, Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode, Nexus 9500 R-Series Line Cards and Fabric Modules. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve79599, CSCve87784, CSCve91371, CSCve91387.

Credit: ykramarz@cisco.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Cisco Nx-os	>=6.0<7.3\(3\)n1\(1\)
Cisco Nexus 5000
Cisco Nexus 5010
Cisco Nexus 5020
Cisco Nexus 5548p
Cisco Nexus 5548up
Cisco Nexus 5596t
Cisco Nexus 5596up
Cisco Nexus 56128p
Cisco Nexus 5624q
Cisco Nexus 5648q
Cisco Nexus 5672up
Cisco Nexus 5696q
Cisco Nx-os	>=6.2<8.1\(2\)
Cisco Nexus 7000
Cisco Nexus 7700
Cisco Nx-os	<7.0\(3\)i3
Cisco Nx-os	>=7.0\(3\)i4<7.0\(3\)i7\(1\)
Cisco Nexus 92160yc-x
Cisco Nexus 92304qc
Cisco Nexus 9236c
Cisco Nexus 9272q
Cisco Nexus 93108tc-ex
Cisco Nexus 93120tx
Cisco Nexus 93128tx
Cisco Nexus 93180yc-ex
Cisco Nexus 9332pq
Cisco Nexus 9372px
Cisco Nexus 9372tx
Cisco Nexus 9396px
Cisco Nexus 9396tx
Cisco Nexus 9504
Cisco Nexus 9508
Cisco Nexus 9516
Cisco Nexus N9k-c9508-fm-r
Cisco Nexus N9k-x9636c-r
Cisco Nexus N9k-x9636q-r
Cisco Nx-os	<7.0\(3\)i4
Cisco Nx-os	>=7.0\(3\)i5<7.0\(3\)i6\(2\)
Cisco Nx-os	=7.0\(3\)i7
Cisco Nexus 172tq-xl
Cisco Nexus 3016
Cisco Nexus 3048
Cisco Nexus 3064-32t
Cisco Nexus 3064-t
Cisco Nexus 3064-x
Cisco Nexus 3100-v
Cisco Nexus 31128pq
Cisco Nexus 3132c-z
Cisco Nexus 3132q
Cisco Nexus 3132q-x
Cisco Nexus 3132q-xl
Cisco Nexus 3164q
Cisco Nexus 3172pq
Cisco Nexus 3172pq-xl
Cisco Nexus 3172tq
Cisco Nexus 3172tq-32t
Cisco Nexus 3232c
Cisco Nexus 3264c-e
Cisco Nexus 3264q
Cisco Nexus 34180yc
Cisco Nexus 3524-x
Cisco Nexus 3524-xl
Cisco Nexus 3548
Cisco Nexus 3548-x
Cisco Nexus 3548-xl
Cisco Nexus 3636c-r
Cisco Nexus C36180yc-r
Cisco Nexus 6001p
Cisco Nexus 6001t
Cisco Nx-os	=7.0
Cisco Nexus 9500

CVE-2018-0295: Input Validation

Never miss a vulnerability like this again

Reference Links

Company

Resources

Contact