#VU17197 Resource exhaustion in Cisco IoT Field Network Director - CVE-2019-1644
Published: January 23, 2019 / Updated: January 24, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17197
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1644
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Cisco IoT Field Network Director
Cisco IoT Field Network Director
Software vendor:
Cisco Systems, Inc
Cisco Systems, Inc
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in in the UDP protocol implementation for Cisco IoT Field Network Director (IoT-FND) due to improper resource management for UDP ingress packets. A remote attacker can send a high rate of UDP packets to an affected system within a short period of time, exhaust available system resources and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
The vulnerability has been addressed in the versions 4.1.2-19, 4.3.0-133.