Cisco ONS15327/ONS15454 up to 3.3 TCC/TCC+/XTC denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco ONS15327 and ONS15454 up to 3.3. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block of the component TCC/TCC+/XTC. The manipulation with the input value / leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco ONS15454 and ONS15327 running ONS before 3.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (reset to TCC, TCC+, TCCi or XTC) via a malformed HTTP request that does not contain a leading / (slash) character.

The bug was discovered 10/31/2002. The weakness was released 03/31/2003 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2002-1557. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 151 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16202 (Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040219-ONS)), 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 to version 3.4 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 12 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10509) and Tenable (16202). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 522, 18888, 20252 and 20253.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

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Nessus ID: 16202
Nessus Name: Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040219-ONS)
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Upgrade: ONS15327/ONS15454 3.4

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-1557 (🔍)
X-Force: 10509
Vulnerability Center: 6904 - [cisco-sa-20021031-ons-vulnerability] DoS in Cisco ONS via Malformed HTTP Request, High
SecurityFocus: 6082 - Cisco ONS15454/ONS15327 Optical Transport Platforms HTTP Request Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 8926 - Cisco - Optical Transport Platforms - DoS via malformed HTTP Request

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Created: 08/08/2014 11:49
Updated: 05/29/2019 15:05
Changes: 08/08/2014 11:49 (71), 05/29/2019 15:05 (4)
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