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CVE-2015-6282

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6282 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XE 2.x and 3.x versions, allowing a remote attacker to force a device reload by sending specially crafted IPv4 packets requiring NAT and MPLS actions. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it is considered high severity, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors, and leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit modules, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0219 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150923-iosxe
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1033645
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry