CVE-2013-1209

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The encryption functionality in the Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) to Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) communication component in Cisco NX-OS on the Nexus 1000V does not properly authenticate VSM/VEM packets, which allows remote attackers to disable packet-level encryption and integrity protection via crafted packets, aka Bug ID CSCud14710.

Affected products

Cisco NX-OS: all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1209
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1209

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