Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.6(0) denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.6(0). It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple versions of Cisco ONS 15327, ONS 15454, and ONS 15454 SDH, including 4.6(0) and 4.6(1), 4.5(x), 4.1(0) to 4.1(3), 4.0(0) to 4.0(2), and earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (control card reset) via a large number of TCP connections with an invalid response instead of the final ACK (TCP-ACK).

The bug was discovered 07/21/2004. The weakness was released 12/31/2004 with Cisco as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1435 since 02/13/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16201 (Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040721-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 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16763) and Tenable (16201). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 768, 22729, 22730 and 22732.

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

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Nessus ID: 16201
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Vendor: cisco.com

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

CVE: CVE-2004-1435 (🔍)
X-Force: 16763
Vulnerability Center: 13904 - [cisco-sa-20040721-ons] Cisco ONS Denial of Service via Last-ACK0, Medium
SecurityFocus: 10768 - Cisco ONS Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 12117 - Cisco ONS 15000 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 8152 - CVE-2004-1435 - Cisco - ONS - Denial-Of-Service Issue

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Created: 02/27/2015 15:51
Updated: 07/13/2019 12:59
Changes: 02/27/2015 15:51 (67), 07/13/2019 12:59 (8)
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