Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20307

Medium

Published: 27 March 2024

Published
27 March 2024
Modified
30 July 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0149 81.5th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20307 is a medium-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Cisco Ios Xe. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the IKEv1 fragmentation code of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a heap overflow, resulting in an affected device reloading. This vulnerability exists because crafted, fragmented IKEv1…

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packets are not properly reassembled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted UDP packets to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: Only traffic that is directed to the affected system can be used to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability can be triggered by IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

cisco
ios
15.1\(2\)sg8, 15.1\(2\)sy10, 15.1\(2\)sy11, 15.1\(2\)sy12, 15.1\(2\)sy13
cisco
ios xe
16.1.3, 16.10.1, 16.10.1a, 16.10.1b, 16.10.1c

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References