Vulnerability · Published Sep 24, 2020 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2020-3559Cisco Aironet Access Point Authentication Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability

Medium 6.8

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Cisco Aironet Access Point Software from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 27.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in Cisco Aironet Access Point (AP) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of clients that are trying to connect to the AP. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending authentication requests from multiple clients to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Aironet Access Point Software	n/a

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

20200924 Cisco Aironet Access Point Authentication Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO