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CVE-2018-15464: Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Services Router Software Denial of Service Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-01-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco 900 Series Aggregation Services Router (ASR) software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a partial denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient handling of certain broadcast packets ingress to the device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending large streams of broadcast packets to an affected device. If successful, an exploit could allow an attacker to impact services running on the device, resulting in a partial DoS condition.

Affected products

• Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Services Routers: 16.6.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106550
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190109-asr900-dos
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106550
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190109-asr900-dos

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