CVE record
CVE-2020-3118
Cisco IOS XR Software Discovery Protocol Format String Vulnerability
Cisco IOS XR improperly validates string input from certain fields in Cisco Discovery Protocol messages. Exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute code with administrative privileges or cause a reload on an affected device.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
unknown
No parseable CVSS vector returned
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Cisco
- Product
- IOS XR
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
- CISA federal remediation due date
- May 3, 2022
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-134
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.