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Cisco - Defect ID: CSCwh31469

Cisco IOS XR Software SNMP Management Plane Protection ACL Bypass Vulnerability

Last updated on 4/30/2025

Overall
6.16.1
Severity
6.46.4
Lifecycle
9.19.1
Popularity
5.15.1

Vendor details

  • No defect details.

Symptom

A vulnerability in the UDP forwarding code of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to bypass configured management plane protection policies and access the Simple Network Management Plane (SNMP) server of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect UDP forwarding programming when using SNMP with management plane protection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to perform an SNMP operation using broadcast as the destination address that could be processed by an affected device that is configured with an SNMP server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to communicate to the device on the configured SNMP ports. Although an unauthenticated attacker could send UDP datagrams to the configured SNMP port, only an authenticated user can retrieve or modify data using SNMP requests. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snmp-uhv6ZDeF

Conditions

See Vulnerable Products Section of the advisory for full details: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snmp-uhv6ZDeF#vp

Workaround

See Workarounds Section of the advisory for full details: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snmp-uhv6ZDeF#workarounds

Further Problem Description

Please refer to the Security Advisory. *PSIRT Evaluation:* The Cisco PSIRT has assigned this bug the following CVSS version 3 score. The Base CVSS score as of the time of evaluation is 4.3: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/cvssCalculator.x?vector=CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVE ID CVE-2024-20319 has been assigned to document this issue. Information about Fixed, Vulnerable, and Non-vulnerable releases--as well as information about fixed release availability--is not maintained by Cisco PSIRT. Please refer to the appropriate fields in this bug. If you require additional help to obtain this information, please open a support case with your support organization. Additional information on Cisco's security vulnerability policy can be found at the following URL: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/resources/security_vulnerability_policy.html

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