Cisco IOS/IOS XE IP Service Level Agreement Feature resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Cisco IOS and IOS XE. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component IP Service Level Agreement Feature. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-1737. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Cisco IOS and IOS XE (Router Operating System) (affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component IP Service Level Agreement Feature. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the processing of IP Service Level Agreement (SLA) packets by Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an interface wedge and an eventual denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper socket resources handling in the IP SLA responder application code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IP SLA packets to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause an interface to become wedged, resulting in an eventual denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device.

The bug was discovered 03/27/2019. The weakness was presented 03/27/2019 as cisco-sa-20190327-ipsla-dos as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-1737 since 12/06/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/17/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 316399 (Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software IP Service Level Agreement Denial of Service Vulnerability(cisco-sa-20190327-ipsla-dos)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Router Operating System

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• Cisco

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• IOS
• IOS XE

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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