CVE-2014-8013 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8013?

CVE-2014-8013 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 3 Feb 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TACACS+ command-authorization implementation in Cisco NX-OS allows local users to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a long CLI command, aka Bug ID CSCur54182.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8013?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8013?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-8013 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-8013 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8013 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Nx-Os

• CVE-2024-20399 Cisco NX-OS Command Injection Exploited Medium 6.0
• CVE-2021-1361 Cisco NX-OS Software Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Actions Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-0301 Memory corruption in Cisco NX-OS unknown Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-1453 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-1341 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8

All Cisco Nx-Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-52j5-h88m-58px.