J-Security Center

Title: Cisco IOS HTTP %% Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

A denial of service attack exists in versions of Cisco IOS, running on a variety of different router hardware. If the router is configured to have a web server running, for configuration and other information, via "ip http server" in the configuration, then by requesting:

http://<router-ip>/%%

A remote attacker can cause the router to crash. Some routers will automatically reboot, while others will require a power cycling to start routing packets again.

Affected Products:

  • Cisco IOS 11.1
  • Cisco IOS 11.2
  • Cisco IOS 11.2(17)
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.10
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.10BC
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.4F1
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.8
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.8P
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.9P
  • Cisco IOS 11.2.9XA
  • Cisco IOS 11.2P
  • Cisco IOS 11.3
  • Cisco IOS 11.3.1
  • Cisco IOS 11.3.1ED
  • Cisco IOS 11.3.1T
  • Cisco IOS 11.3T
  • Cisco IOS 12.0
  • Cisco IOS 12.0(5)T1
  • Cisco IOS 12.0(7)T
  • Cisco IOS 12.0(8)
  • Cisco IOS 12.0(9)S
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.1W
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.1XA3
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.1XB
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.1XE
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.2
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.2XC
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.2XD
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.2XF
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.2XG
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.3T2
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.4
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.4S
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.4T
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.5
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.6
  • Cisco IOS 12.0.7
  • Cisco IOS 12.0DB
  • Cisco IOS 12.0S
  • Cisco IOS 12.0T

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