CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-20227
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-27
- 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])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-388
Description
A vulnerability in the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) feature of 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 certain L2TP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted L2TP packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, 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 16.8.1
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1b
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1c
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1d
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1e
• cisco ios xe 16.8.1s
• cisco ios xe 16.8.2
• cisco ios xe 16.8.3
• cisco ios xe 16.9.1
• cisco ios xe 16.9.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.9.1b
• cisco ios xe 16.9.1s
• cisco ios xe 16.9.2
• cisco ios xe 16.9.3
• cisco ios xe 16.9.4
• cisco ios xe 16.9.5
• cisco ios xe 16.9.5f
• cisco ios xe 16.9.6
• cisco ios xe 16.9.7
• cisco ios xe 16.9.8
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1b
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1c
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1d
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1e
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1f
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1g
• cisco ios xe 16.10.1s
• cisco ios xe 16.10.2
• cisco ios xe 16.10.3
• cisco ios xe 16.11.1
• cisco ios xe 16.11.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.11.1b
• cisco ios xe 16.11.1s
• cisco ios xe 16.11.2
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1c
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1s
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1t
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1w
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1x
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1y
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1z1
• cisco ios xe 16.12.1z2
• cisco ios xe 16.12.2
• cisco ios xe 16.12.2a
• cisco ios xe 16.12.2s
• cisco ios xe 16.12.3
• cisco ios xe 16.12.3s
• cisco ios xe 16.12.4
• cisco ios xe 16.12.4a
• cisco ios xe 16.12.5
• cisco ios xe 16.12.5a
• cisco ios xe 16.12.6
• cisco ios xe 16.12.6a
• cisco ios xe 16.12.7
• cisco ios xe 16.12.8
… and 36 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-l2tp-dos-eB5tuFmV Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-l2tp-dos-eB5tuFmV Mitigation, Vendor Advisory