Riskcovery

CVE-2025-20196

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
May 7, 2025
Updated
May 7, 2025
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024

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Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Cisco IOx application hosting environment to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to the improper handling of HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Cisco IOx application hosting environment to stop responding. The IOx process will need to be manually restarted to recover services.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Affected Products

ProductVersions
IOSCisco
  • N/AAffected
Cisco IOS XE SoftwareCisco
  • 16.1.1Affected
  • 16.1.2Affected
  • 16.1.3Affected
  • 16.2.1Affected
  • 16.2.2Affected
  • 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
  • 16.4.2Affected
  • 16.4.3Affected
  • 16.5.1Affected
  • 16.5.1aAffected
  • 16.5.1bAffected
  • 16.5.2Affected
  • and 112 more versions

References

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