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Cisco IOS Telnet Denial of Service

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Cisco IOS Telnet Denial of Service

Disclosed
03/17/2017
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module triggers a Denial of Service condition in the Cisco IOS telnet service affecting multiple Cisco switches. Tested against Cisco Catalyst 2960 and 3750.

Author(s)

  • Artem Kondratenko

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/dos/cisco/ios_telnet_rocem
msf auxiliary(ios_telnet_rocem) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(ios_telnet_rocem) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(ios_telnet_rocem) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(ios_telnet_rocem) > run

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