VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-0718

high
Published 2016-03-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 through 6.1 on Nexus 1000V 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 devices and Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP stack reload) by sending crafted TCP packets to a device that has a TIME_WAIT TCP session, aka Bug ID CSCub70579.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_1i
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_1j
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_1m
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3i
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3l
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3m
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3q
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3s
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3u
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_3y
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_4f
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_4g
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_4i
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_4j
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_4k
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.4_4l
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.5_base
cisco ciscounified_computing_system1.6_base
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_1q
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_1s
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_1t
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_1w
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_1x
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_2m
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_2q
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_2r
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_3a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_3b
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_3c
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_4a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_4b
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_4d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_5a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_5b
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_5c
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_5d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_5e
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.0_5f
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_1a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_1b
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_1d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_1e
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_1f
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_2a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_2c
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_2d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_3a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_3b
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_3c
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_3d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_3e
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.1_3f
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_1b
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_1c
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_1d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_1e
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_2c
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_2d
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_2e

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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