CVE-2023-20213

MEDIUM

Cisco Identity Services Engine - Denial of Service via CDP Traffic Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the CDP processing feature of Cisco ISE could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition of the CDP process on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient bounds checking when an affected device processes CDP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted CDP traffic to the device. A successful exploit could cause the CDP process to crash, impacting neighbor discovery and the ability of Cisco ISE to determine the reachability of remote devices. After a crash, the CDP process must be manually restarted using the cdp enable command in interface configuration mode.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.6%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (4)
cisco/identity_services_engine 2.7.0 (10 CPE variants)
cisco/identity_services_engine 3.0.0 (7 CPE variants)
cisco/identity_services_engine 3.1 (6 CPE variants)
cisco/identity_services_engine 3.2 (2 CPE variants)
Published Nov 01, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026