CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-20140
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-789
Description
A vulnerability in the Wireless Network Control daemon (wncd) of Cisco IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent wireless attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.
This vulnerability is due to improper memory management. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of IPv6 network requests from an associated wireless IPv6 client to an affected device. To associate a client to a device, an attacker may first need to authenticate to the network, or associate freely in the case of a configured open network. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the wncd process to consume available memory and eventually cause the device to stop responding, resulting in a DoS condition.
Affected configurations
• cisco ios xe 16.4.1
• cisco ios xe 16.4.2
• cisco ios xe 16.4.3
• cisco ios xe 16.5.1
• cisco ios xe 16.5.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.5.1b
• cisco ios xe 16.5.2
• cisco ios xe 16.5.3
• cisco ios xe 16.6.1
• cisco ios xe 16.6.2
• cisco ios xe 16.6.3
• cisco ios xe 16.6.4
• cisco ios xe 16.6.4a
• cisco ios xe 16.6.5
• cisco ios xe 16.6.5a
• cisco ios xe 16.6.6
• cisco ios xe 16.6.7
• cisco ios xe 16.6.8
• cisco ios xe 16.6.9
• cisco ios xe 16.6.10
• cisco ios xe 16.7.1
• cisco ios xe 16.7.1a
• cisco ios xe 16.7.1b
• cisco ios xe 16.7.2
• cisco ios xe 16.7.3
• cisco ios xe 16.7.4
• 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 16.9.3a
• 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
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Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness