Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2018-0094 is a denial-of-service issue in Cisco UCS Central Software. A remote unauthenticated attacker could drive high CPU use by sending large volumes of IPv6 traffic. The likely business impact is loss or degradation of UCS Central availability, not data theft or code execution based on the provided sources. Exposure is likely limited to environments running Cisco UCS Central Software with IPv6 ingress traffic reaching the affected service or device path. Internet or broadly reachable management networks would raise urgency. The bundle does not identify specific affected versions beyond Cisco UCS Central Software. Treat this as a targeted availability risk for Cisco UCS Central environments. It is not described as data compromise, but downtime in infrastructure management can disrupt operations. Prioritize externally reachable or weakly segmented deployments first. Mitigation focus: Review Cisco’s advisory for fixed releases and supported workarounds.; Prioritize remediation for UCS Central systems reachable by untrusted IPv6 traffic.; Restrict UCS Central management access to trusted networks where feasible..
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- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180117-ucsCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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