CVE-2021-1611

Summary

CVECVE-2021-1611
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-23 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:28:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in Ethernet over GRE (EoGRE) packet processing of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software for the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Family Wireless Controller, Embedded Wireless Controller, and Embedded Wireless on Catalyst 9000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper processing of malformed EoGRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious packets to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800-40 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800-80 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800-cl - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800-l - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800-l-c - All All All
Hardware Cisco Catalyst 9800-l-f - All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xe All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco IOS XE Software for Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers EoGRE Denial of Service Vulnerability CISCO tools.cisco.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 317050 Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) XE Software for Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers EoGRE Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (cisco-sa-ewlc-gre-6u4ELzAT)
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