Resource exhaustion in Cisco Prime Network - CVE-2018-0137
Published: February 8, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10408
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0137
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the TCP throttling process of Cisco Prime Network due to insufficient rate limiting protection for TCP listening ports. A remote attacker can send a high rate of TCP SYN packets to the local IP address, cause the device to consume a high amount of memory and become slow, or to stop accepting new TCP connections to the application.
The weakness exists in the TCP throttling process of Cisco Prime Network due to insufficient rate limiting protection for TCP listening ports. A remote attacker can send a high rate of TCP SYN packets to the local IP address, cause the device to consume a high amount of memory and become slow, or to stop accepting new TCP connections to the application.
Affected software
Cisco Prime Network
How to mitigate CVE-2018-0137
Install update from vendor's website.