CVE-2026-20301

Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software Extensible Messaging Client Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

HIGH 8.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.57 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the Extensible Messaging Client Protocol (XMCP), also referred to as the External Client protocol, of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of malformed XMCP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed XMCP packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. The attacker does not need the XMCP client username to exploit this vulnerability.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

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)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco IOS XE Softwareaffected 17.2.1a ; affected 16.12.1y ; affected 16.12.3s ; affected 16.7.1b ; affected 16.6.2 ; affected 16.6.5
Cisco · IOSaffected 15.2(7)E7 ; affected 15.2(8)E3 ; affected 15.7(3)M10 ; affected 15.8(3)M9 ; affected 15.9(3)M7 ; affected 15.2(7)E8

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