High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6633
CVE-2017-6633
Description
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
1- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_computing_system:3.0\(0.234\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
3- www.securityfocus.com/bid/98525nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170517-ucscnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038513nvd
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