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Cisco Aironet Access Points Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published Oct 16, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) VPN packet processing functionality in Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) frames that pass through the data plane of an affected AP. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by associating to a vulnerable AP, initiating a PPTP VPN connection to an arbitrary PPTP VPN server, and sending a malicious GRE frame through the data plane of the AP. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an internal process of the targeted AP to crash, which in turn would cause the AP to reload. The AP reload would cause a DoS condition for clients that are associated with the AP.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Oct 16, 2019
Updated Nov 19, 2024
Reserved Aug 20, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 19, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
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