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Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Cisco Fabric Services Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published Aug 27, 2020

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause process crashes, which could result in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The attack vector is configuration dependent and could be remote or adjacent. For more information about the attack vector, see the Details section of this advisory. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when the affected software parses Cisco Fabric Services messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious Cisco Fabric Services messages to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of an affected device, which could result in a DoS condition.

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Remediation

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References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Aug 27, 2020
Updated Nov 13, 2024
Reserved Dec 12, 2019

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Nov 13, 2024

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner cisco
Published Aug 27, 2020
Updated Nov 13, 2024

GitHub

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