Title: Cisco Content Service Switch XML Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
The Cisco Content Service (CSS) switch is a Layer 5 and 7 aware switch capable of providing a front-end to web server farms and caches. These switches run WebNS software.
It is possible to cause some Cisco Content Service Switches (CSS) to reboot by sending XML data via HTTP to the web management interface of the device. The affected web management interface listens on port 8081.
This vulnerability may enable a remote attacker to negatively impact the availability of services offered by the affected devices.
The CSS 11000 series switches are known to be affected by this vulnerability. This includes the CSS 11050, CSS 11150, CSS 11800 and CSS 11500 hardware platforms.
Affected Products:
- Cisco CSS11000 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11050 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11150 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11501 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11503 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11506 Content Services Switch
- Cisco CSS11800 Content Services Switch
- Cisco WebNS 4.0.0 1.053s
- Cisco WebNS 5.0.0 0.038s
- Cisco WebNS 5.0.0 1.012s
- Cisco WebNS 5.0.0 2.005s
- Cisco WebNS 5.1.0 0.0.10
References:
- Cisco Systems: Cisco Call Manager Express
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