Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-1377

Medium

Published: 24 March 2021

Published
24 March 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0054 68.2th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-1377 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Cisco Ios Xe. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 31.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) management of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to prevent an affected device from resolving ARP entries for legitimate hosts on the connected subnets. This…

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vulnerability exists because ARP entries are mismanaged. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by continuously sending traffic that results in incomplete ARP entries. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause ARP requests on the device to be unsuccessful for legitimate hosts, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

cisco
ios
12.2\(6\)i1, 15.1\(3\)svr1, 15.1\(3\)svr2, 15.1\(3\)svr3, 15.1\(3\)svs
cisco
ios xe
16.10.1, 16.10.1a, 16.10.1b, 16.10.1c, 16.10.1d

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References