Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
- Severity
- High7.5CVSS 3.1, High
- EPSS
- 6%
- Published
- 30 Aug 2010
- Updated
- 16 Jun 2026
Description
Title, description and vendor guidance are quoted from the source records.
Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.9.1, when BGP is enabled, does not properly handle unrecognized transitive attributes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peering reset) via a crafted prefix announcement, as demonstrated in the wild in August 2010 with attribute type code 99, aka Bug ID CSCti62211.
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
6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 93%).
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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