Resource exhaustion in Cisco Managed Services Accelerator - CVE-2021-1266

 

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Managed Services Accelerator - CVE-2021-1266

Published: February 4, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU50315
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-1266
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Managed Services Accelerator

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the REST API. A remote authenticated attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2021-1266

Install updates from vendor's website.

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