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CVE-2020-3500

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3500 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco StarOS and related ASR 5500/5700 and Virtualized Packet Core Single Instance products. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit insufficient validation of incoming IPv6 traffic by sending a crafted packet, causing the device to reload. With a CVSS score of 8.6, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no known exploit code available, nor is there any evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 21.18.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 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)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asr5k-ipv6-dos-ce3zhF8m
Vendor Advisory