6.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2013-6683

Published: 13/11/2013 Updated: 14/11/2013
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.5
VMScore: 543
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The IPv6 implementation in Cisco NX-OS does not properly handle neighbor-table adjacencies, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (NS processing outage) via a series of malformed packets, aka Bug ID CSCtd15904.

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A vulnerability in the IP version 6 (IPv6) packet handling routine of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a device to stop responding to neighbor solicitation (NS) requests, causing a limited denial of service (DoS) condition The vulnerability is due to improper processing of adjacencies in the IPv6 nei ...