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CVE-2013-6701

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6701 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco ONS 15454 devices running software 9.6 and earlier. The tNetTaskLimit process on the Transport Node Controller (TNC) fails to properly prioritize health pings, allowing remote attackers to trigger a watchdog timeout and TNC reset by flooding the network. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and potential for partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:cisco_ons_15454_system_software:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:cisco_ons_15454_system_software:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:cisco_ons_15454_system_software:9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:cisco_ons_15454_system_software:9.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:cisco_ons_15454_system_software:9.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-6701
Vendor Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/viewAlert.x
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1029512
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry