CVE-2015-6273

high

Published 2015-08-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Cisco IOS XE before 3.1.2S on ASR 1000 devices mishandles the automatic setup of Virtual Fragment Reassembly (VFR) by certain firewall and NAT components, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Embedded Services Processor crash) via crafted IP packets, aka Bug IDs CSCtf87624, CSCte93229, CSCtd19103, and CSCti63623.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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