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CVE-2017-6745

high
Published 2017-08-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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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
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

A vulnerability in the cache server within Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite (VDS) for Television 3.2(5)ES1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted appliance. The vulnerability is due to excessive mapped connections exhausting the allotted resources within the system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending large amounts of inbound traffic to a device with the intention of overloading certain resources. A successful exploit could cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc39260.

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 ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.2\(5\)es1
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.2\(6\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.2\(7\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.3\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.4\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.4\(2\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.5\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.5\(1\)-cos
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.6\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.8\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television3.9\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television4.1\(2\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television4.1\(3\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television4.1\(4\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television4.1\(5\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television4.2\(1\)
cisco ciscovideoscape_distribution_suite_for_television4.4\(1\)

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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