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CVE-2017-3865 — Cisco Staros security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.8

A vulnerability in the IPsec component of Cisco StarOS for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to terminate all active IPsec VPN tunnels and prevent new tunnels from establishing, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Affected Products: ASR 5000 Series Routers, Virtualized Packet Core (VPC) Software. More Information: CSCvc21129. Known Affected Releases: 21.1.0 21.1.M0.65601 21.1.v0. Known Fixed Releases: 21.2.A0.65754 21.1.b0.66164 21.1.V0.66014 21.1.R0.65759 21.1.M0.65749 21.1.0.66030 21.1.0.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.8 (3.0)
Published
2017-07-04
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • cisco / staros / 21.0.0
  • cisco / staros / 21.0_m0.64246
  • cisco / staros / 21.0_m0.64702

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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