cisco-sa-20191016-airo-dos

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Cisco Aironet Access Points Bridge Protocol Data Unit Port Disable Denial of Service Vulnerability

view advisory published 2019-10-16

A vulnerability in the bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) forwarding functionality of Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an AP port to go into an error disabled state. The vulnerability occurs because BPDUs received from specific wireless clients are forwarded incorrectly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability on the wireless network by sending a steady stream of crafted BPDU frames. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a limited denial of service (DoS) attack because an AP port could go offline. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191016-airo-dos ["https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191016-airo-dos"]

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CVE-2019-15265USmedium6.5—
A vulnerability in the bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) forwarding functionality of Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an…
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  • FixedCisco Aironet Access Point Software

    Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability.

    https://software.cisco.com
  • WorkaroundCisco Aironet Access Point Software

    A possible workaround for the vulnerability is to reconfigure the Aironet AP port from spanning-tree bpduguard enable to spanning-tree bpdu filtering.

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