CVE-2015-4243

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The PPPoE establishment implementation in Cisco IOS XE 3.5.0S on ASR 1000 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) by sending malformed PPPoE Active Discovery Request (PADR) packets on the local network, aka Bug ID CSCty94202.

Affected products

Cisco IOS XE: 3.5.0s

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=39675
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032805
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=39675
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032805

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