A vulnerability in the egress packet processing functionality of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 5700 Series devices and Virtualized Packet Core (VPC) System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an interface on the device to cease forwarding packets
Published Apr 19, 2018
7.5
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.35%
Description
A vulnerability in the egress packet processing functionality of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 5700 Series devices and Virtualized Packet Core (VPC) System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an interface on the device to cease forwarding packets. The device may need to be manually reloaded to clear this Interface Forwarding Denial of Service condition. The vulnerability is due to the failure to properly check that the length of a packet to transmit does not exceed the maximum supported length of the network interface card (NIC). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted IP packet or a series of crafted IP fragments through an interface on the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the network interface to cease forwarding packets. This vulnerability could be triggered by either IPv4 or IPv6 network traffic. This vulnerability affects the following Cisco products when they are running the StarOS operating system and a virtual interface card is installed on the device: Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 5700 Series, Virtualized Packet Core-Distributed Instance (VPC-DI) System Software, Virtualized Packet Core-Single Instance (VPC-SI) System Software. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf32385.
Affected products
- Vendor n/a Product Cisco StarOS Defaultn/a
- Version Cisco StarOSStatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| n/a | Cisco StarOS | n/a |
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No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
CISA SSVC (Vulnrichment)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA ADP.
Exploitation
NoneAutomatable
YesTechnical Impact
PartialDecision
n/aAssessed Nov 29, 2024 · SSVC 2.0.3
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (21 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 3.35% (0.03354) | 88.30th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.49% (0.03490) | 87.58th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 3.65% (0.03653) | 86.76th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 6.33% (0.06330) | 84.52th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 3.91% (0.03910) | 87.52th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.24% (0.00236) | 62.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 0.24% (0.00236) | 61.48th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 10, 2023 | 0.34% (0.00336) | 67.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 8, 2023 | 0.50% (0.00497) | 73.00th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 18, 2023 | 0.54% (0.00542) | 74.00th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 8, 2023 | 0.76% (0.00761) | 78.46th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 13, 2023 | 0.70% (0.00698) | 77.33th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.61% (0.00609) | 75.32th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.14% (0.01136) | 59.45th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Oct 18, 2022 | 1.14% (0.01136) | 58.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.14% (0.01136) | 56.27th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.14% (0.01136) | 34.23th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 1.30% (0.01300) | 31.12th | v1 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | 1.30% (0.01300) | 30.48th | v1 |
| Sep 1, 2021 | 1.30% (0.01300) | 69.44th | v1 |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 1.30% (0.01300) | 0.00th | v1 |
References (3)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103923 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040720 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180418-staros x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103923 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040720 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry | |
| https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180418-staros | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory |
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