CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.1. It affects Cisco. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2014-7997
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.1
EPSS
0.69%
Cisco
Original NVD Description
The DHCP implementation in Cisco IOS on Aironet access points does not properly handle error conditions with short leases and unsuccessful lease-renewal attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device restart) by triggering a transition into a recovery state that was intended to involve a network-interface restart but actually involves a full device restart, aka Bug ID CSCtn16281.