CVE-2021-34697

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
23/09/2021
Last modified:
07/11/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks to or through the affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect programming of the half-opened connections limit, TCP SYN flood limit, or TCP SYN cookie features when the features are configured in vulnerable releases of Cisco IOS XE Software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to flood traffic to or through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to initiate a DoS attack to or through an affected device.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 17.3.1 (including) 17.3.3 (excluding)