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
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.