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CVE-2020-3509

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3509 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE Software for cBR-8 Converged Broadband Routers. This flaw, stemming from insufficient error handling during DHCPv4 message parsing, allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash the device's supervisor by sending a malicious DHCPv4 message to a WAN interface. With a CVSS score of 8.6 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on availability, potentially leading to a device reload. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
16.7\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.7\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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-iosxe-dhcp-dos-JSCKX43h
Vendor Advisory