5.3
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-6398

Published: 12/09/2016 Updated: 28/11/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The PPTP server in Cisco IOS 15.5(3)M does not properly initialize packet buffers, which allows remote malicious users to obtain sensitive information from earlier network communication by reading packet data, aka Bug ID CSCvb16274.

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Vendor Advisories

A vulnerability in the implementation of Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) server functionality in Cisco IOS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access data from a packet buffer that was previously used The vulnerability is due to the use of a previously used packet buffer whose content was not cleared from memory ...