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CVE-2017-6627

63
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6627 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS 15.1, 15.2, 15.4, and IOS XE 3.14-3.18. It stems from unclosed UDP sockets, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send UDP packets to destination port 0, causing an interface queue wedge. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. This CVE is listed on CISA's KEV catalog, indicating active exploitation in the wild, despite a lack of public exploit code or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
15.1\(2\)gcCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(2\)gc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(2\)gc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(2\)gc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(2\)gc2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(2\)gc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(4\)gcCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(4\)gc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(4\)gc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(4\)gc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0604 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscoworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170906-ios-udp
MitigationVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100644
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039289
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry