# CVE-2024-20321: Denial of service in Cisco NX-OS Software

> Unauthenticated remote attackers can cause a denial of service by flooding eBGP traffic, dropping neighbor sessions on Cisco NX-OS devices.

- **Severity:** High 8.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 16 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7rpf-cp7m-9q4f

## What is CVE-2024-20321?

CVE-2024-20321 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 28 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) implementation of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.

 This vulnerability exists because eBGP traffic is mapped to a shared hardware rate-limiter queue. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending large amounts of network traffic with certain characteristics through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause eBGP neighbor sessions to be dropped, leading to a DoS condition in the network.

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling), CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20321?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Nx-Os.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-20321?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20321 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-20321 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20321 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Nx-Os

- [CVE-2024-20399](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20399/): Cisco NX-OS Command Injection (medium 6.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-1361](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1361/): Cisco NX-OS Software Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Actions Vulnerability (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-0301](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-0301/): Memory corruption in Cisco NX-OS unknown (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-1453](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1453/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-1341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1341/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-20321 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-20321 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 28 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20321 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Nx-Os. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20321/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20321/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-20321
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20321
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20321

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20321/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.