CVE-2020-3479
MEDIUMCisco IOS and IOS XE - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Malformed EVPN BGP Update Messages
Title source: llmDescription
A vulnerability in the implementation of Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) for the Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) address family in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update messages that contain crafted EVPN attributes. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending BGP update messages with specific, malformed attributes to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an affected device to crash, resulting in a DoS condition.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-bgp-evpn-dos-LNfYJxfF
Scores
CVSS v3
6.1
EPSS
0.0039
EPSS Percentile
60.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-400
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (2)
cisco/ios
cisco/ios_xe
Published
Sep 24, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026