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Cisco Security Updates for IOS XR Software - 20240315001

Overview

Cisco released security updates for March 2024 to address vulnerabilities in its multiplae products. A cyber threat actor could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device.

What is vulnerable?

Product(s) Affected Version CVE Severity CVSS Dated
PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) termination feature of Cisco IOS XR Software in Cisco ASR 9000 Series with Lightspeed and Lightspeed-Plus based line cards:
A9K-16X100GE-TR; A99-16X100GE-X-SE; A99-32X100GE-TR; A9K-4HG-FLEX-TR; A9K-4HG-FLEX-SE; A99-4HG-FLEX-TR; A99-4HG-FLEX-SE; A9K-8HG-FLEX-TR; A9K-8HG-FLEX-SE; A9K-20HG-FLEX-TR; A9K-20HG-FLEX-SE; A99-32X100GE-X-TR; A99-32X100GE-X-SE; A99-10X400GE-X-TR; A99-10X400GE-X-SE
7.8 and earlier
7.9
7.10
7.11
CVE-2024-20327 High 7.4 13 Mar, 2024
SSH client feature of Cisco IOS XR Software in following Cisco products:
8000 Series Routers
IOS XRd Control Plane
IOS XRd vRouter
NCS 540 Series Routers that are running the NCS540L images
NCS 5700 Series Routers (NCS-57B1-5DSE-SYS, NCS-57B1-6D24-SYS, and NCS-57C1-48Q6-SYS)
7.3.2
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
7.9
7.10
CVE-2024-20320 High 7.8 13 Mar, 2024
Cisco IOS XR 64-bit Software with affected Layer 2 transport configuration enabled in following Cisco products:
ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers that have a Lightspeed-based or Lightspeed-Plus-based line card installed
ASR 9902 Compact High-Performance Routers
ASR 9903 Compact High-Performance Routers
IOS XRd vRouters
IOS XRv 9000 Routers
7.8 and earlier
7.9
7.10
CVE-2024-20318 High 7.4 13 Mar, 2024
Cisco IOS XR Software iPXE Boot Signature Bypass Vulnerability version CVE-2023-20236 High 7.8 14 Mar, 2024
Cisco IOS XR Software Authenticated CLI Secure Copy Protocol and SFTP Denial of Service Vulnerability version CVE-2024-20262 Medium 6.5 13 Mar, 2024
Cisco IOS XR Software MPLS and Pseudowire Interfaces Access Control List Bypass Vulnerabilities version CVE-2024-20315
CVE-2024-20322
Medium 5.8 13 Mar, 2024
Cisco IOS XR Software DHCP Version 4 Server Denial of Service Vulnerability version CVE-2024-20266 Medium 5.3 13 Mar, 2024
Cisco IOS XR Software SNMP Management Plane Protection ACL Bypass Vulnerability version CVE-2024-20319 Medium 4.3 13 Mar, 2024

What has been observed?

There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing.

Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of one month (refer Patch Management):