cve-2021-1624
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-23 02:25
Modified
2024-09-17 03:53
Severity
8.6 (High) - cvssV3_1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Cisco IOS XE Software Rate Limiting Network Address Translation Denial of Service Vulnerability
References
SourceURLTags
ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ratenat-pYVLA7wMVendor Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
CiscoCisco IOS XE Software
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