CVE-2020-3465

Cisco IOS XE Software Ethernet Frame Denial of Service Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
Sep 24, 2020
Updated
Nov 13, 2024
Reserved
Dec 12, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a device to reload. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of certain valid, but not typical, Ethernet frames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending the Ethernet frames onto the Ethernet segment. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco IOS XE Software 16.8.1Cisco
  • n/aAffected

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