CVE-2015-0718: Cisco NX-OS

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 through 6.1 on Nexus 1000V 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 devices and Unified Computing System (UCS) platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP stack reload) by sending crafted TCP packets to a device that has a TIME_WAIT TCP session, aka Bug ID CSCub70579.

Affected products

• Cisco NX-OS: version base only
• Cisco Unified Computing System: version 1.4_1i only; version 1.4_1j only; version 1.4_1m only; version 1.4_3i only; version 1.4_3l only; version 1.4_3m only; …
• NETGEAR JR6150 Firmware: before 2017-01-06 (fixed in 2017-01-06)
• Samsung x14j Firmware: version t-ms14jakucb-1102.5 only
• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_124 only
• Zyxel GS1900-10hp Firmware: before 2.50\(aazi.0\)c0 (fixed in 2.50\(aazi.0\)c0)
• Zzinc Keymouse Firmware: version 3.08 only

Published 2016-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.