CVE-2017-12264 Denial of service in Cisco Meeting Server

What is CVE-2017-12264?

CVE-2017-12264 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Meeting Server, published on 5 Oct 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the Web Admin Interface of Cisco Meeting Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient bound checks performed by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTP packet to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the Web Admin Server. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve89149.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12264?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Meeting Server.

How do I fix CVE-2017-12264?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-12264 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-2017-12264 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12264 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Meeting Server

• CVE-2016-6448 Memory corruption in Cisco Meeting Server before 2.0.3 and Acano Server before 1.9.5 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-12249 Misconfiguration in Cisco Meeting Server Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-6445 Auth bypass in Cisco Meeting Server (CMS) before 2.0.6 and Acano Server before 1.8.18 and 1.9.x before 1.9.6 Critical 9.1
• CVE-2018-0439 Cisco Meeting Server Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability High 8.8
• CVE-2016-6444 Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Meeting Server 1.8, 1.9, 2.0 High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xjw3-hcm5-85xf.