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CVE-2024-20314 — Cisco Ios Xe security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.6

A vulnerability in the IPv4 Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) fabric edge node feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization and stop all traffic processing, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of certain IPv4 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending certain IPv4 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to exhaust CPU resources and stop processing traffic, resulting in a DoS condition.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.6 (3.1)
Published
2024-03-27
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-783

Affected products

  • cisco / ios_xe / 16.1.1
  • cisco / ios_xe / 16.1.2
  • cisco / ios_xe / 16.1.3
  • cisco / ios_xe / 16.2.1
  • cisco / ios_xe / 16.2.2
  • cisco / ios_xe / 16.3.1

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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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