CVE-2013-1213

Cisco NX-OS on the Nexus 1000V does not assign the proper priority to heartbeat messages from a Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) to a Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false VEM unavailability report) via a flood of UDP packets, aka Bug ID CSCud14840.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - psirt@cisco.com

Published

2013-05-29

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Nexus 1000v (Cisco)
• Nx-os (Cisco)

References

• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-1213