CVE-2014-8005 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Race condition in the lighttpd module in Cisco IOS XR 5.1 and earlier on Network Convergence System 6000 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process reload) by establishing many TCP sessions, aka Bug ID CSCuq45239.

Published: 2014-11-26

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2014-7854	Race condition in the lighttpd module in Cisco IOS XR 5.1 and earlier on Network Convergence System 6000 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process reload) by establishing many TCP sessions, aka Bug ID CSCuq45239.

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 0.00566.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-8005
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=36532
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71287
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031262
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98937

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Ios Xr

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2014-11-26T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:50.060Z

Reserved: 2014-10-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8005

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-11-26T02:59:04.450

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-8005

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-362

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