7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-6393

Published: 05/10/2016 Updated: 11/05/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 632
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The AAA service in Cisco IOS 12.0 up to and including 12.4 and 15.0 up to and including 15.6 and IOS XE 2.1 up to and including 3.18 and 16.2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a failed SSH connection attempt that is mishandled during generation of an error-log message, aka Bug ID CSCuy87667.

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Vendor Advisories

A vulnerability in the Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) service for remote Secure Shell Host (SSH) connections to the device for Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the vulnerable device to reload The vulnerability is due to an error log message when a remote SSH connection to ...