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This vulnerability is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Active exploitation has been observed in the wild. This poses significant risk to federal enterprises and should be prioritized for immediate patching.

CVE-2018-0151

Critical CISA KEV
Low Medium High Critical
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: Mar 28, 2018
Last Modified: Jan 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in the quality of service (QoS) subsystem of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to incorrect bounds checking of certain values in packets that are destined for UDP port 18999 of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious packets to an affected device. When the packets are processed, an exploitable buffer overflow condition may occur. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected device with elevated privileges. The attacker could also leverage this vulnerability to cause the device to reload, causing a temporary DoS condition while the device is reloading. The malicious packets must be destined to and processed by an affected device. Traffic transiting a device will not trigger the vulnerability. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf73881.

CVSS Metrics

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Vector String:

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
N
Attack Complexity
L
Privileges Required
N
User Interaction
N
Scope
U
Confidentiality
H
Integrity
H
Availability
H

Known Affected Software

2 configuration(s) from 1 vendor(s)

ios_xe
Version:
16.5.1
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ios_xe
Version:
-
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
This vulnerability affects 2 software configuration(s). Ensure you patch all affected systems.

Severity Details

9.8
out of 10.0
Critical

CISA KEV Status

Active Exploitation

Listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Key Information

Published Date
March 28, 2018