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CVE-2023-20014

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20014 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the DNS functionality of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a continuous stream of DNS requests, causing the coredns service to stop or the device to reload. Rated 7.5 HIGH on CVSS, it has a low attack complexity and high impact on availability, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.3\(1c\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:nexus_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0095 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ndb-dnsdos-bYscZOsu
Vendor Advisory