Medium severity5.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 20, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-1353
CVE-2021-1353
Description
A vulnerability in the IPv4 protocol handling of Cisco StarOS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a memory leak that occurs during packet processing. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of crafted IPv4 packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust the available memory and cause an unexpected restart of the npusim process, leading to a DoS condition on the affected device.
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Affected products
4- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:virtualized_packet_core-single_instance:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <21.22.0
- (no CPE)
- Range: n/a
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