CVE-2015-6297 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the DHCPv6 server of Cisco IOS on ASR 9000 devices running software 5.2.0 Base. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger a process reset by sending specially crafted packets to the affected devices. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of medium severity, indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity to cause a partial loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.2.0_baseCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:5.2.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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