CVE-2022-20623

Summary

CVECVE-2022-20623
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-23 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:42:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the rate limiter for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) traffic of Cisco NX-OS Software for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause BFD traffic to be dropped on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to a logic error in the BFD rate limiter functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted stream of traffic through the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause BFD traffic to be dropped, resulting in BFD session flaps. BFD session flaps can cause route instability and dropped traffic, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability applies to both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Cisco N9k-c92160yc-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c92300yc - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c92304qc - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9232c - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c92348gc-x - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9236c - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9272q - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93108tc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93108tc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9316d-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93180lc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93180yc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93180yc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93180yc2-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93216tc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93240yc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9332c - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93360yc-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9336c-fx2 - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9348gc-fxp - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c93600cd-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9364c - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-c9364c-gx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x97160yc-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x97284yc-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x9732c-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x9732c-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x9736c-ex - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x9736c-fx - All All All
Hardware Cisco N9k-x9788tc-fx - All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os All All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os All All All All
Operating System Cisco Nx-os All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
20220223 Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Bidirectional Forwarding Detection 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

  • 317138 Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (cisco-sa-nxos-bfd-dos-wGQXrzxn)
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