Cisco IOS 11.2/11.3/12.0 BGP UPDATE Message privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco IOS 11.2/11.3/12.0 (Router Operating System). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component BGP UPDATE Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco devices IOS 12.0 and earlier allow a remote attacker to cause a crash, or bad route updates, via malformed BGP updates with unrecognized transitive attribute.

The bug was discovered 05/10/2001. The weakness was released 05/10/2001 with Cisco as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is available at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2001-0650. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 48954 (Cisco IOS BGP Attribute Corruption Vulnerability - Cisco Systems), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6566), Tenable (48954), SecurityFocus (BID 2733†), OSVDB (1830†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-6141†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 48954
Nessus Name: Cisco IOS BGP Attribute Corruption Vulnerability - Cisco Systems
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2001-0650 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-0650
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17386

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X-Force: 6566
SecurityFocus: 2733 - Cisco IOS BGP Transitive Attribute Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 1830 - Cisco IOS BGP Transitive Attribute DoS
Vulnerability Center: 6141 - [cisco-sa-20010510-ios-bgp-attr] DoS in Cisco IOS 12.0 via Malformed BGP Updates, High

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Created: 07/09/2014 12:31 PM
Updated: 12/15/2024 02:26 AM
Changes: 07/09/2014 12:31 PM (74), 05/26/2019 06:55 PM (1), 12/15/2024 02:26 AM (17)
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