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CVE-2020-3205

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3205 is a critical vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software affecting Cisco 809/829 Industrial Integrated Services Routers and CGR1000. It allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the Virtual Device Server (VDS) with root privileges due to insufficient validation of inter-VM channel signaling packets. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3.1 score of 8.8 (High), indicating a severe risk with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially leading to complete system compromise. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.2\(60\)ez16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(60\)ez16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0\(2\)sg11aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(2\)sg11a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.2\(4\)jaz1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.2\(4\)jaz1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.3\(3\)jaa1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.3\(3\)jaa1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.3\(3\)jpiCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.3\(3\)jpi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0095 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 1,857 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-iot-udp-vds-inj-f2D5Jzrt
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