Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
An authenticated user could overload Cisco IMC Supervisor or Cisco UCS Director through the web interface, making the management system unresponsive. The issue affects availability, not confidentiality, based on the supplied description. The bundle does not provide CVSS, affected version detail, or confirmed exploitation evidence.
Executive priority
Prioritize this where Cisco UCS management platforms support important infrastructure operations. The issue can disrupt management availability, but current evidence indicates authenticated access is required and active exploitation is not confirmed.
Technical view
CVE-2018-15404 is an authenticated remote denial-of-service flaw caused by insufficient limits on web-interface resource consumption. A malformed or crafted HTTP request can oversubscribe resources or make a component unresponsive. The mapped weakness is CWE-399. Specific affected versions and fixes are not included in the supplied bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely where Cisco IMC Supervisor or Cisco UCS Director web interfaces are still deployed and reachable by authenticated users. Risk increases if management interfaces are accessible beyond tightly controlled administrative networks. The bundle does not identify exact affected versions.
Exploitation context
The source bundle states exploitation requires valid application credentials and remote access to the web interface. It does not cite active exploitation, public exploit use, or inclusion in CISA KEV. Treat exploitation status as unconfirmed.
Researcher notes
Key gaps are missing CVSS, version range, and explicit fix details in the bundle. Validate against Cisco’s advisory before scoring environment risk. Avoid assuming exploit availability or unauthenticated exposure without additional cited evidence.
Mitigation direction
- Check Cisco’s advisory for affected releases, fixed versions, and workarounds.
- Restrict management web interfaces to trusted administrative networks only.
- Review active application accounts and remove unnecessary access.
- Monitor the platforms for resource exhaustion and unresponsive components.
- Plan remediation according to Cisco guidance if the products remain deployed.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Cisco IMC Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director deployments.
- Confirm whether their web interfaces are reachable from non-administrative networks.
- Review current authenticated users and privilege assignments.
- Compare deployed versions against Cisco’s advisory details.
- Check logs and monitoring for unexplained management-plane outages.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Conservative CVE-to-ATT&CK context
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CWE-399: Exact CWE lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- 20181003 Cisco Integrated Management Controller Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director System Resources Denial of Service VulnerabilityCVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
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Resource Management Errors
Resource Management Errors represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.