CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-20173

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2026-10-07 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-10-07
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust system resources, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability exists because rate limiting was improperly applied to some protocols. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of UDP or TCP connections to a data plane interface on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause instability to various routing and control plane protocols through some packet loss and temporary disruptions, causing a DoS condition. This DoS condition will clear without manual intervention soon after the high rate of traffic is stopped.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

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