CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-20072

8.6 HIGH Published 2023-03-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-03-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A vulnerability in the fragmentation handling code of tunnel protocol packets in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected system to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to the improper handling of large fragmented tunnel protocol packets. One example of a tunnel protocol is Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted fragmented packets to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected system to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: Only traffic directed to the affected system can be used to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• cisco ios xe 17.9.1 • cisco ios xe 17.9.1a • cisco ios xe 17.9.1w

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References