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Cisco Catalyst Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Denial-of-Service Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Remediation due
2022-03-17

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0155

Description

A vulnerability in the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) offload implementation of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when the BFD header in a BFD packet is incomplete. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BFD message to or across an affected switch. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of the system. This vulnerability affects Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E (K5), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7-E (K10), Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 7L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E (K10), Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 9-E (K10), Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches (K10), Catalyst 4900M Switch (K5), Catalyst 4948E Ethernet Switch (K5). Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc40729.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.6 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableyes
Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
-Cisco IOS and IOS XE
Cisco IOS and IOS XE

References

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Record Details

Published
2018-03-28
Last updated
2026-01-12
Assigner (CNA)
cisco
Credited to
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