CVE-2015-0686 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0686?

CVE-2015-0686 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 3 Apr 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SNMP implementation in Cisco NX-OS 6.1(2)I2(3) on Nexus 9000 devices, when a Reset High Availability (HA) policy is configured, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device reload) via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuq92240.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0686?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0686?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-0686 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-2015-0686 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0686 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vx6q-fhp4-277g.