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CVE-2020-3428

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3428 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the WLAN Local Profiling feature of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software for the Catalyst 9000 Family. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted HTTP packet, leading to incorrect parsing and device reboot. Rated 6.5 Medium, the attack requires adjacent network access but is low complexity with no user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-dclass-dos-VKh9D8k3
Vendor Advisory