CVE-2014-2140

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Cisco ONS 15454 controller cards with software 9.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (card reset) via a TCP FIN attack that triggers file-descriptor exhaustion and a failure to open a CAL pipe, aka Bug ID CSCug97348.

Affected products

Cisco Ons 15454 System Software: through 9.6; 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.3 (+1)
Cisco Ons 15454: all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-2140
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=33680
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-2140
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=33680

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