CVE-2020-3510

HIGH

Cisco IOS XE Umbrella Connector - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Malicious DNS Request Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Umbrella Connector component of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload, resulting in a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling when parsing DNS requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious DNS requests to an Umbrella Connector client interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, which triggers a reload of the affected device.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0075
EPSS Percentile 73.5%
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-400
Status published
Products (3)
cisco/ios_xe 16.12.1
cisco/ios_xe 16.12.2
cisco/ios_xe 17.1.1
Published Sep 24, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026