Medium severity · published Oct 16, 2019
CVE-2019-15265
A vulnerability in the bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) forwarding functionality of Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an…
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in the bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) forwarding functionality of Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an AP port to go into an error disabled state. The vulnerability occurs because BPDUs received from specific wireless clients are forwarded incorrectly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability on the wireless network by sending a steady stream of crafted BPDU frames. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a limited denial of service (DoS) attack because an AP port could go offline.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
A1
Aironet 1540 Firmware · Cisco
before 8.5.151.0; 8.6 before 8.8.120.0; 8.8.125.0 before 8.9.100.0 · source: NVD
A1
Aironet 1560 Firmware · Cisco
before 8.5.151.0; 8.6 before 8.8.120.0; 8.8.125.0 before 8.9.100.0 · source: NVD
A1
Aironet 1800 Firmware · Cisco
before 8.5.151.0; 8.6 before 8.8.120.0; 8.8.125.0 before 8.9.100.0 · source: NVD
A2
Aironet 2800 Firmware · Cisco
before 8.5.151.0; 8.6 before 8.8.120.0; 8.8.125.0 before 8.9.100.0 · source: NVD
A3
Aironet 3800 Firmware · Cisco
before 8.5.151.0; 8.6 before 8.8.120.0; 8.8.125.0 before 8.9.100.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15265
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15265
Vendor Advisory
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191016-airo-dos
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