CVE-2025-20209

HIGH

Cisco IOS XR - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Malformed IKEv2 Packets

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) function of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to prevent an affected device from processing any control plane UDP packets.  This vulnerability is due to improper handling of malformed IKEv2 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed IKEv2 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to prevent the affected device from processing any control plane UDP packets, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0056
EPSS Percentile 68.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (40)
cisco/ios_xr 6.5.1
cisco/ios_xr 6.5.2
cisco/ios_xr 6.5.3
cisco/ios_xr 6.6.1
cisco/ios_xr 6.6.2
cisco/ios_xr 6.6.3
cisco/ios_xr 6.6.25
cisco/ios_xr 7.0.0
cisco/ios_xr 7.0.1
cisco/ios_xr 7.0.2
... and 30 more
Published Mar 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026