Memory leak in Cisco Systems, Inc products - CVE-2021-1353
Published: January 20, 2021 / Updated: January 27, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU50065
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-1353
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a memory leak that occurs during packet processing. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
Affected software
Cisco ASR 5000 Series
Cisco Virtualized Packet Core
Cisco StarOS
Cisco Virtualized Packet Core
Cisco StarOS
How to mitigate CVE-2021-1353
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
Cisco StarOS - update to 21.22.0