PT-2017-12450 · Cisco · Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers+1

Published 2017-11-01 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-12275

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the implementation of 802.11v Basic Service Set (BSS) Transition Management functionality could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of 802.11v BSS Transition Management Response packets that an affected device receives from wireless clients. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed 802.11v BSS Transition Management Response packet to an affected device.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12275

Affected Products

Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers

Cisco Wls

References · 6

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171101-wlc2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171101-wlc2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12275 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12275 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/101657 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1039713 · Note