Denial of service in Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches - CVE-2017-6655
Published: June 8, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6986
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6655
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol implementation for Cisco NX-OS System Software due to a lack of proper FCoE frame padding validation. A remote attacker can send a stream of specially crafted FCoE frames to a target device and cause FCoE-related process to reload.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol implementation for Cisco NX-OS System Software due to a lack of proper FCoE frame padding validation. A remote attacker can send a stream of specially crafted FCoE frames to a target device and cause FCoE-related process to reload.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6655
Install update from vendor's website.