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CVE-2009-2055KEV

Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Severity
Medium5.9CVSS 3.1, Medium
EPSS
3%
Published
19 Aug 2009
Updated
16 Jun 2026

Description

Title, description and vendor guidance are quoted from the source records.

Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session reset) via a BGP UPDATE message with an invalid attribute, as demonstrated in the wild on 17 August 2009.

Weakness: CWE-20

Known exploited

Added to CISA KEV on 25 Mar 2022

Federal remediation due date: 15 Apr 2022

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Exploit prediction

3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 88%).

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

Affected products

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References

Provenance

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Cisco (CVE record)
Cisco (CVE record) · 27 Sept 2026, 23:46 UTC · Parser patcharo-cve5/1.1.0
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities · 27 Sept 2026, 23:42 UTC · Parser patcharo-kev/1.0.0
NVD
NVD · 27 Sept 2026, 23:44 UTC · Parser patcharo-nvd/1.0.0
FIRST EPSS
FIRST EPSS · 27 Sept 2026, 23:46 UTC · Parser patcharo-epss/1.0.0

Last verified: 28 Sept 2026, 02:31 UTC