CVE-2021-34697

Medium

Description

A vulnerability in the Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks to or through the affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect programming of the half-opened connections limit, TCP SYN flood limit, or TCP SYN cookie features when the features are configured in vulnerable releases of Cisco IOS XE Software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to flood traffic to or through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to initiate a DoS attack to or through an affected device.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.8
Exploit probability—
ProductCisco Ios Xe
PublishedSep 23, 2021
First seenSep 23, 2021
Weakness typeCWE-665CWE-665

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
cisco ios_xe17.3.1 ≤ v < 17.3.317.3.3

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