PT-2018-8785 · Cisco · Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server (Vcs) Expressway

Published 2018-06-21 · Updated 2020-08-31 · CVE-2018-0358

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) Expressway (affected versions not specified)

Description A denial of service condition could be caused by an unauthenticated, remote attacker due to exhaustion of file descriptors while processing a high volume of traffic. An attacker could exploit this by establishing a high number of concurrent TCP connections to the system, potentially causing a restart in a specific process and resulting in a temporary interruption of service.

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

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

CWE-769

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0358

Affected Products

Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server (Vcs) Expressway

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0358 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180620-vcse-dos · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104521 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041172 · Note