CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-20226

Missing Initialization of a Variable

Published: Sep 27, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability in Application Quality of Experience (AppQoE) and Unified Threat Defense (UTD) on Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to the mishandling of a crafted packet stream through the AppQoE or UTD application. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted packet stream through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Weakness

The product does not initialize critical variables, which causes the execution environment to use unexpected values.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ios_xe Cisco 17.7.1 (including) 17.7.1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.7.1a (including) 17.7.1a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.7.2 (including) 17.7.2 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.8.1 (including) 17.8.1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.8.1a (including) 17.8.1a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1 (including) 17.9.1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.1a (including) 17.9.1a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.2 (including) 17.9.2 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.9.2a (including) 17.9.2a (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.10.1 (including) 17.10.1 (including)
Ios_xe Cisco 17.10.1a (including) 17.10.1a (including)

Potential Mitigations

References