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Cisco NX-OS Software External Border Gateway Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

High · Updated · Cisco

2 products with CSAF evidence

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. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.