Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20455

Cisco Ios Xe 17.1.1 … 17.9.5b

Published
25 September 2024
Modified
24 October 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 8.6
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0066 48th percentile
Risk Priority 64 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20455 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Cisco Ios Xe. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 48th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A vulnerability in the process that classifies traffic that is going to the Unified Threat Defense (UTD) component of Cisco IOS XE Software in controller mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition…

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on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because UTD improperly handles certain packets as those packets egress an SD-WAN IPsec tunnel. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic through an SD-WAN IPsec tunnel that is configured on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: SD-WAN tunnels that are configured with Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) are not affected by this vulnerability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

cisco
ios xe
17.1.1, 17.1.1a, 17.1.1s, 17.1.1t, 17.1.3
cisco
ios xe sd-wan
17.10.1a, 17.11.1a, 17.12.1a, 17.13.1a, 17.5.1a

Mitigating Controls

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

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