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Denial of Service Vulnerability in CISCO

Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)

Severity Rating: HIGH

Systems Affected

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode

Overview

A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.

Target Audience: 

All IT administrators and individuals responsible for maintaining and updating in Software.

Risk Assessment:

High risk of data manipulation and service disruption.

Impact Assessment:

Potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system.

Description

This vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation when processing specific Ethernet frames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted Ethernet frame to the management interface of an affected device.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.

Note: Only the out-of-band (OOB) management interface is affected.

Solution

Apply appropriate updates as mentioned in Cisco Advisory

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nxos-cpdos-qLsv6pFD

Vendor Information

CISCO

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nxos-cpdos-qLsv6pFD

References

CISCO

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nxos-cpdos-qLsv6pFD

CVE Name

CVE-2026-20033

 

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Thanks and Regards,

CERT-In

Incident Response Help Desk

e-mail: incident@cert-in.org.in

Phone: +91-11-22902657

Toll Free Number: 1800-11-4949

Toll Free Fax : 1800-11-6969

Web: http://www.cert-in.org.in

PGP Fingerprint: A768 083E 4475 5725 B81A A379 2156 C0C0 B620 D0B4

PGP Key information:

https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=CONTACTUS

Postal address:

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Government of India

Electronics Niketan

6, C.G.O. Complex

New Delhi-110 003

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