CVE detail

CVE-2021-1230 — CVE-2021-1230

Published 2021-02-24 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cisco · Product nx-os · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.6

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0148

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

71.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a routing process to crash, which could lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to an issue with the installation of routes upon receipt of a BGP update. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BGP update to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the routing process to crash, which could cause the device to reload. This vulnerability applies to both Internal BGP (IBGP) and External BGP (EBGP). Note: The Cisco implementation of BGP accepts incoming BGP traffic from explicitly configured peers only.

Remediation

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Cisco Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode	—	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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