Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.6 TCP ACK denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.6. Affected is an unknown function of the component TCP ACK Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2004-0307. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform up to 4.6 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component TCP ACK Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco ONS 15327 before 4.1(3), ONS 15454 before 4.6(1), and ONS 15454 SD before 4.1(3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reset) by not sending the ACK portion of the TCP three-way handshake and sending an invalid response instead.

The bug was discovered 02/19/2004. The weakness was published 02/19/2004 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is available at cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-0307. 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.

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 4.6.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15265), Tenable (16202), SecurityFocus (BID 9699†), OSVDB (4009†) and Secunia (SA10933†). Similar entries are available at VDB-522, VDB-523, VDB-524 and VDB-18888. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 16202
Nessus Name: Cisco ONS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (20040219-ONS)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: ONS 15454 Optical Transport Platform 4.6.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

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

CVE: CVE-2004-0307 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0307
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22450
X-Force: 15265
SecurityFocus: 9699 - Cisco ONS Platform Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 10933
OSVDB: 4009 - Cisco ONS 15000 Control Card DoS
Vulnerability Center: 15174 - [cisco-sa-20040219-ONS] Cisco ONS Remote DoS by Not Sending ACK to TCP Port 1080, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/09/2015 16:50
Updated: 07/19/2019 14:42
Changes: 01/09/2015 16:50 (73), 07/19/2019 14:42 (1)
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