CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-20233

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 13, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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A vulnerability in the Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) feature of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of invalid continuity check messages (CCMs). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted CCMs to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the CFM service to crash when a user displays information about maintenance end points (MEPs) for peer MEPs on an affected device.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Ios_xrCisco*7.5.4 (excluding)
Ios_xrCisco7.6 (including)7.6.3 (excluding)
Ios_xrCisco7.7 (including)7.7.21 (excluding)
Ios_xrCisco7.8 (including)7.8.2 (excluding)
Ios_xrCisco7.9.0 (including)7.9.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References