CVE-2020-3479 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-3479: Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software MP-BGP EVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

Vendor Cisco
Product Cisco IOS 15.2(5)E1
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published September 24, 2020
Last update November 13, 2024

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 24, 2020 CVE published
November 13, 2024 Record updated