CVE-2001-0895

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Summary

CVECVE-2001-0895
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-11-15 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMultiple Cisco networking products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service on the local network via a series of ARP packets sent to the router's interface that contains a different MAC address for the router, which eventually causes the router to overwrite the MAC address in its ARP table.

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 Catalyst 2900xl All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 2948g-l3 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 2950 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 3500xl All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 3550 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 4000 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 4908g-l3 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 5000 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 6000 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 8500 All All All All
Hardware Cisco Distributed Director All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
VU#399355 - Cisco IOS and CatOS fail to properly validate ARP packets thereby overwriting device's MAC address in ARP table af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Cisco IOS ARP table overwrite vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cisco.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Cisco Local Interface ARP Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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