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CVE-2026-20012

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 8.6
EPSS
EPSS 0.36 % · percentile 30 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) feature of Cisco IOS Software, Cisco IOS XE Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a memory leak, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper parsing of IKEv2 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IKEv2 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit of Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. A successful exploit of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software could allow the attacker to partially exhaust system memory, resulting in system instability, such as the inability to establish new IKEv2 VPN sessions. A manual reboot of the device is required to recover from this condition.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · IOSaffected 15.2(1)S ; affected 15.2(2)S ; affected 15.2(1)S1 ; affected 15.2(4)S ; affected 15.2(1)S2 ; affected 15.2(2)S1
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Softwareaffected 9.8.1 ; affected 9.8.1.5 ; affected 9.8.1.7 ; affected 9.8.2 ; affected 9.8.2.8 ; affected 9.8.2.14
Cisco · Cisco IOS XE Softwareaffected 3.5.0E ; affected 3.5.1E ; affected 3.5.2E ; affected 3.5.3E ; affected 3.11.1S ; affected 3.11.2S
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Softwareaffected 6.2.3 ; affected 6.2.3.1 ; affected 6.2.3.2 ; affected 6.2.3.3 ; affected 6.2.3.4 ; affected 6.2.3.5

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD