Cisco Ons 15454 System Software
CVE-2014-2140
MEDIUM
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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CVSS VectorNVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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1DescriptionCVE.org
Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (card reset) via a TCP FIN attack that triggers file-descriptor exhaustion and a failure to open a CAL pipe, aka Bug ID CSCug97348.
AnalysisAI
Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (card reset) via a TCP FIN attack that triggers file-descriptor exhaustion and a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (card reset) via a TCP FIN attack that triggers file-descriptor exhaustion and a failure to open a CAL pipe, aka Bug ID CSCug97348. Affected products include: Cisco Cisco Ons 15454 System Software, Cisco Ons 15454.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
The tNetTaskLimit process on the Transport Node Controller (TNC) on Cisco ONS 15454 devices with software 9.6 and earlie
Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (flas
Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 10.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (car
The session-termination functionality on Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier does not initial
Same technique Denial Of Service
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