Improper Priority Assignment in Cisco NX-OS on Nexus 1000V

CVE-2013-1213 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cisco NX-OS on the Nexus 1000V does not assign the proper priority to heartbeat messages from a Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) to a Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false VEM unavailability report) via a flood of UDP packets, aka Bug ID CSCud14840.

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