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CVE-2009-2055

58
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2055 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XR versions 3.4.0 through 3.8.1. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a BGP UPDATE message containing an invalid attribute, causing a session reset. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a network-based attack with high impact on availability, but high attack complexity. Notably, this CVE has been actively exploited in the wild, as demonstrated on August 17, 2009, and has garnered significant community discussion despite a lack of public exploit code or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 25, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0333 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
mailman.nanog.org / pipermail/nanog/2009-August/012719.html
Mailing List
securitytracker.com / id
Broken Link
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af150f.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory