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CVE-2017-6633
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-22T01:29:00.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:22:41.577

Summary

A vulnerability in the TCP throttling process of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers 3.0(0.234) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient rate-limiting protection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of TCP SYN packets to a specific TCP listening port on an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a specific TCP listening port to stop accepting new connections, resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCva65544.

Affected products

cisco — unified_computing_system

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