VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6457

medium
Published 2016-11-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Platform Leaf Switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. This vulnerability affects Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Leaf Switches (TOR) - ACI Mode and Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). More Information: CSCuy93241. Known Affected Releases: 11.2(2x) 11.2(3x) 11.3(1x) 11.3(2x) 12.0(1x). Known Fixed Releases: 11.2(2i) 11.2(2j) 11.2(3f) 11.2(3g) 11.2(3h) 11.2(3l) 11.3(0.236) 11.3(1j) 11.3(2i) 11.3(2j) 12.0(1r).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161102-n9kapic

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscoapplication_policy_infrastructure_controller1.2\(2\)
ciscoapplication_policy_infrastructure_controller1.2\(3\)
ciscoapplication_policy_infrastructure_controller1.3\(1\)
ciscoapplication_policy_infrastructure_controller1.3\(2\)
ciscoapplication_policy_infrastructure_controller2.0\(1\)

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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