CVE-2020-3509

HIGH

Cisco IOS XE for cBR-8 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via DHCPv4 Message Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the DHCP message handler of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the supervisor to crash, which could result in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when DHCP version 4 (DHCPv4) messages are parsed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious DHCPv4 message to or through a WAN interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the affected device. Note: On Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Routers, all of the following are considered WAN interfaces: 10 Gbps Ethernet interfaces 100 Gbps Ethernet interfaces Port channel interfaces that include multiple 10 and/or 100 Gbps Ethernet interfaces

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0116
EPSS Percentile 78.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-388 CWE-203
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/ios_xe 16.7\(1\)
Published Sep 24, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026