CVE-2015-6431

medium
Published 2015-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Cisco IOS XE 16.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a packet with the 00-00-00-00-00-00 source MAC address, aka Bug ID CSCux48405.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

CWEs

CWE-399

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.