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Cisco IOS XE Software for Catalyst 9200 Series Switches Umbrella Connector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published Sep 24, 2020

Description

A vulnerability in the Umbrella Connector component of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload, resulting in a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when parsing DNS requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious DNS requests to an Umbrella Connector client interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, which triggers a reload of the affected device.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Sep 24, 2020
Updated Nov 13, 2024
Reserved Dec 12, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 13, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner cisco
Published Sep 24, 2020
Updated Nov 13, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2020-24781