Actively exploited · Published Aug 30, 2010 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2010-3035
High 7.5 Exploited
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in IOS XR from Cisco. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 25, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.7% (higher than 93% of all known vulnerabilities). Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Apr 15, 2022.
Official description
Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.9.1, when BGP is enabled, does not properly handle unrecognized transitive attributes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peering reset) via a crafted prefix announcement, as demonstrated in the wild in August 2010 with attribute type code 99, aka Bug ID CSCti62211.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- ciscoiosxr-bgp-packet-dos(61443) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
- 1024371 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
- 20100827 Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
- [nanog] 20100827 Did your BGP crash today? mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- 41190 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- ADV-2010-2227 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
- 67696 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-3035 government-resource