CVE-2023-20033

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
Sep 27, 2023
Updated
Jun 18, 2025
Reserved
Oct 27, 2022

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Description

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper resource management when processing traffic that is received on the management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of traffic to the management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco IOS XE SoftwareCisco
  • 16.3.1Affected
  • 16.3.2Affected
  • 16.3.3Affected
  • 16.3.1aAffected
  • 16.3.4Affected
  • 16.3.5Affected
  • 16.3.5bAffected
  • 16.3.6Affected
  • 16.3.7Affected
  • 16.3.8Affected
  • 16.3.9Affected
  • 16.3.10Affected
  • 16.3.11Affected
  • 16.4.1Affected
  • 16.5.1Affected
  • 16.5.1aAffected
  • 16.6.1Affected
  • 16.6.2Affected
  • 16.6.3Affected
  • 16.6.4Affected
  • 16.6.5Affected
  • 16.6.4aAffected
  • 16.6.6Affected
  • 16.6.7Affected
  • 16.6.8Affected
  • and 33 more versions

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