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Cisco XE: CVE-2021-1625: Cisco IOS XE Software Zone-Based Policy Firewall ICMP and UDP Inspection Vulnerability

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Cisco XE: CVE-2021-1625: Cisco IOS XE Software Zone-Based Policy Firewall ICMP and UDP Inspection Vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/23/2021
Created
01/19/2022
Added
01/18/2022
Modified
04/08/2024

Description

A vulnerability in the Zone-Based Policy Firewall feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to prevent the Zone-Based Policy Firewall from correctly classifying traffic. This vulnerability exists because ICMP and UDP responder-to-initiator flows are not inspected when the Zone-Based Policy Firewall has either Unified Threat Defense (UTD) or Application Quality of Experience (AppQoE) configured. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to send UDP or ICMP flows through the network. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject traffic through the Zone-Based Policy Firewall, resulting in traffic being dropped because it is incorrectly classified or in incorrect reporting figures being produced by high-speed logging (HSL).

Solution(s)

  • cisco-xe-upgrade-latest

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