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CVE-2023-20176

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20176 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a high volume of traffic to an AP, causing resource exhaustion and disrupting Datagram TLS sessions. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, the CVSS score of 8.6 indicates a significant potential impact on availability. Community discussion and media coverage for this vulnerability are currently minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:catalyst_9166_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 17.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:catalyst_9164_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 17.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:catalyst_9136_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 17.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:catalyst_9130_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 17.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:catalyst_9124_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0065 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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

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

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-click-ap-dos-wdcXkvnQ
Vendor Advisory