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High severity8.6NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-1588

CVE-2021-1588

Description

A vulnerability in the MPLS Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation when an affected device is processing an MPLS echo-request or echo-reply packet. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious MPLS echo-request or echo-reply packets to an interface that is enabled for MPLS forwarding on the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the MPLS OAM process to crash and restart multiple times, causing the affected device to reload and resulting in a DoS condition.

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Affected products

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  • (expand)+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: n/a
  • cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:7.0\(3\)i7\(9\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:7.0\(3\)i7\(9\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:8.4\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:9.3\(7\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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