CVE-2007-4430

Summary

CVECVE-2007-4430
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-08-20 19:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (device restart and BGP routing table rebuild) via certain regular expressions in a "show ip bgp regexp" command. NOTE: unauthenticated remote attacks are possible in environments with anonymous telnet and Looking Glass access.

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: CWE-20 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | 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
Operating System Cisco Cbos All All All All
Operating System Cisco Cbos 12.1 All All All
Operating System Cisco Cbos 12.2 All All All
Application Cisco Cli All All All All
Operating System Cisco Ids All All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 10.0 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 10.3 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 11.0 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 11.1 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 11.2 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.0 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.1 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.2 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.3 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios 12.4 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr All All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr 2.0 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr 3.0 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr 3.1 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr 3.2 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr 3.3 All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xr 3.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Cisco IOS Regular Expressions Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
heise Security - News - DoS vulnerability in Cisco IOS compromises Internet routers [Update] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.heise-security.co.uk
forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 forum.cisco.com
Cisco Security Response: Cisco IOS Reload on Regular Expression Processing - Cisco Systems af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cisco.com
Cisco IOS Show IP BGP Regexp Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[c-nsp] About the posting entitled "Heads up: "sh ip bgp regexp" crashing router" af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 puck.nether.net
[c-nsp] Heads up: "sh ip bgp regexp" crashing router af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 puck.nether.net
Cisco IOS Stack Overflow in Processing IP BGP Regex Commands Lets Remote Authenticated Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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