CVE-2015-4204 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service on Cisco IOS uBR10000 devices by rapidly sending specific SNMP requests.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2015-4204?

CVE-2015-4204 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Jun 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in Cisco IOS 12.2 in the Performance Routing Engine (PRE) module on uBR10000 devices allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or PXF process crash) by sending docsIfMCmtsMib SNMP requests quickly, aka Bug ID CSCue65051.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4204?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Cisco Ios.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4204?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-4204 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-2015-4204 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4204 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vj5g-jj63-gm6r.

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