CVE-2000-0268

Summary

CVECVE-2000-0268
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2000-04-20 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionCisco IOS 11.x and 12.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending the ENVIRON option to the Telnet daemon before it is ready to accept it, which causes the system to reboot.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco 3660 Router All All All All
Hardware Cisco 7100 Router All All All All
Hardware Cisco 7200 Router All All All All
Hardware Cisco 7500 Router All All All All
Application Cisco Accesspath ls-3 All All All
Application Cisco Accesspath ts-3 All All All
Application Cisco Accesspath vs-3 All All All
Application Cisco As5200 All All All All
Application Cisco As5300 All All All All
Application Cisco As5800 All All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 11.3aa All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(2\) All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(2\)xc All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(2\)xd All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(2\)xf All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(2\)xg All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(3\)t2 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(4\) All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(4\)s All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(4\)t All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(5\) All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(6\) All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0\(7\)t All All All
Application Cisco System Controller 3640 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Ubr7200 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Voice Gateway As5800 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.osvdb.org/1289 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Cisco IOS Software TELNET Option Handling Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Cisco IOS Software TELNET Option Handling Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cisco.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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