What is CVE-2021-1378?

CVE-2021-1378 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Asr 5000 Series Software, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2021-02-17.

How severe is CVE-2021-1378?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Asr 5000 Series Software

CVE-2021-1378

A vulnerability in the SSH service of the Cisco StarOS operating system could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop processing traffic, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabi…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.002 (36.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Cisco Asr 5000 Series Software — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

20210217 Cisco StarOS Denial of Service Vulnerability (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-1378?: CVE-2021-1378 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Asr 5000 Series Software, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2021-02-17.
How severe is CVE-2021-1378?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.