Cisco NX-OS Software Denial of Service Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software)

CVE-2026-20173
MEDIUM 5.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.37 % · percentile 31 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust system resources, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability exists because rate limiting was improperly applied to some protocols. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of UDP or TCP connections to a data plane interface on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause instability to various routing and control plane protocols through some packet loss and temporary disruptions, causing a DoS condition. This DoS condition will clear without manual intervention soon after the high rate of traffic is stopped.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Lcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS Softwareaffected 8.2(5) ; affected 7.3(5)D1(1) ; affected 8.4(2) ; affected 8.4(3) ; affected 9.2(3) ; affected 9.2(2v)

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
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