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CVE-2020-3569

59
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3569 is a critical vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XR Software, specifically within the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) feature. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) process or exhaust system memory by sending crafted IGMP packets. Rated with a CVSS score of 8.6 (High), it has a network attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on availability, potentially affecting other critical processes. Notably, this vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite no public exploit code being available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:6.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:6.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:6.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:6.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:6.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0329 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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

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-iosxr-dvmrp-memexh-dSmpdvfz
MitigationVendor Advisory