CVE-2016-6415: Cisco IOS, IOS XR, and IOS XE IKEv1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

Cisco IOS, IOS XR, and IOS XE contain insufficient condition checks in the part of the code that handles Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) security negotiation requests. contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) that could allow an attacker to retrieve memory contents. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to retrieve memory contents, which can lead to information disclosure.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160916-ikev1; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6415

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-200. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6415
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog