CVE-2020-3203

HIGH

Cisco Catalyst 9800 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

A vulnerability in the locally significant certificate (LSC) provisioning feature of Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers that are running Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak that could lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of certain public key infrastructure (PKI) packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could cause an affected device to continuously consume memory, which could result in a memory allocation failure that leads to a crash and causes a DoS condition.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0076
EPSS Percentile 73.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401 CWE-400
Status published

Affected Products (50)

cisco/ios_xe
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Timeline

Published Jun 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026