CVE-2015-6278

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

28/09/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The IPv6 snooping functionality in the first-hop security subsystem in Cisco IOS 12.2, 15.0, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, and 15.5 and IOS XE 3.2SE, 3.3SE, 3.3XO, 3.4SG, 3.5E, and 3.6E before 3.6.3E; 3.7E before 3.7.2E; 3.9S and 3.10S before 3.10.6S; 3.11S before 3.11.4S; 3.12S and 3.13S before 3.13.3S; and 3.14S before 3.14.2S does not properly implement the Control Plane Protection (aka CPPr) feature, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a flood of ND packets, aka Bug ID CSCus19794.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)ex:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy7a:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(50\)sy4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)ex:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(1\)sy7a:::::::*

CVE-2015-6278

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools