CVE-2001-0861 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cisco 12000 with IOS 12.0 and line cards based on Engine 2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by flooding the router with traffic that generates a large number of ICMP Unreachable replies.

Published: 2002-03-09

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:h:cisco:12000_router:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0844	Cisco 12000 with IOS 12.0 and line cards based on Engine 2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by flooding the router with traffic that generates a large number of ICMP Unreachable replies.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00911.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-018.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/GSR-unreachables-pub.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/794
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3534
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7536

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco 12000 Router

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:37:06.457Z

Reserved: 2001-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0861

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-12-06T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0861

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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