Vulnerability · Published Feb 4, 2021 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2021-1266Cisco Managed Services Accelerator Denial of Service Vulnerability

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Cisco Managed Services Accelerator from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 67% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 32.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Managed Services Accelerator (MSX) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to the way that the affected software logs certain API requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a flood of crafted API requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition on the affected device.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Managed Services Accelerator	n/a

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

20210203 Cisco Managed Services Accelerator Denial of Service Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO