CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-3517

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 27, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.6
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause process crashes, which could result in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The attack vector is configuration dependent and could be remote or adjacent. For more information about the attack vector, see the Details section of this advisory. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when the affected software parses Cisco Fabric Services messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious Cisco Fabric Services messages to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of an affected device, which could result in a DoS condition.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Firepower_extensible_operating_systemCisco1.1 (including)1.1.4.179 (excluding)
Firepower_extensible_operating_systemCisco2.0 (including)2.0.1.153 (excluding)
Firepower_extensible_operating_systemCisco2.1 (including)2.1.1.86 (excluding)
Firepower_extensible_operating_systemCisco2.2 (including)2.2.1.70 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References