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    CVE-2018-0155

    A vulnerability in the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) offload implementation of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when the BFD header in a BFD packet is incomplete. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BFD message to or across an affected switch. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of the system. This vulnerability affects Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E (K5), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 9-E (K10), Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches (K10), Catalyst 4900M Switch (K5), Catalyst 4948E Ethernet Switch (K5). Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc40729.

    Published:Mar 28, 2018
    Last Modified:Jan 13, 2026
    EPS:Mar 28, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.11218
    CVSS Score:8.6

    CISA Notification

    Description

    A vulnerability in the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) offload implementation of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when the BFD header in a BFD packet is incomplete. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BFD message to or across an affected switch. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of the system. This vulnerability affects Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E (K5), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 9-E (K10), Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches (K10), Catalyst 4900M Switch (K5), Catalyst 4948E Ethernet Switch (K5). Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc40729.

    Required Action:

    Apply updates per vendor instructions.

    Notes:

    No extra notes provided.

    Due Date
    Mar 17, 2022
    1639 days ago
    Alert Date
    Mar 3, 2022
    1653 days ago

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500-x Series Switches \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-e \(k5\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6l-e \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7-e \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7l-e \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500e Supervisor Engine 8-e \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500e Supervisor Engine 8l-e \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4500e Supervisor Engine 9-e \(k10\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4900m Switch \(k5\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Catalyst 4948e Ethernet Switch \(k5\)
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Ios
    Vendor
    Cisco
    Product
    Ios Xe
    Vendor
    Rockwellautomation
    Product
    Allen-bradley Stratix 8300 Industrial Managed Ethernet Switch

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High