CVE detail

CVE-2024-20480 — CVE-2024-20480

Published 2024-09-25 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cisco · Product ios_xe · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.6

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0057

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

44.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability in the DHCP Snooping feature of Cisco IOS XE Software on Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) fabric edge nodes could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition that requires a manual reload to recover. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of IPv4 DHCP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending certain IPv4 DHCP packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to exhaust CPU resources and stop processing traffic, resulting in a DoS condition that requires a manual reload to recover.

Remediation

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software	—	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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