CVE-2021-1624

Summary

CVECVE-2021-1624
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 the Rate Limiting Network Address Translation (NAT) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization in the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to mishandling of the rate limiting feature within the QuantumFlow Processor. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending large amounts of traffic that would be subject to NAT and rate limiting through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the QuantumFlow Processor utilization to reach 100 percent on the affected device, resulting in a DoS condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco Asr 1000 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1000-esp100 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1000-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1001 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1001-hx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1001-hx R - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1001-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1001-x R - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1002 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1002-hx - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1002-hx R - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1002-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1002-x R - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1004 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1006 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1006-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1009-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1013 - All All All
Hardware Cisco Asr 1023 - All All All
Operating System Cisco Ios Xe All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco IOS XE Software Rate Limiting Network Address Translation 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

  • 317046 Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) XE Software Rate Limiting Network Address Translation Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (cisco-sa-ratenat-pYVLA7wM)
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