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CVE-2016-1459

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1459 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS and IOS XE devices. Remote authenticated users can trigger a device reload by sending crafted attributes within a BGP message. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3, indicating a network-based attack with high impact on availability, but requiring low privileges and high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.4\(4\)xc7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.4\(4\)xc7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.4\(15\)t17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.4\(15\)t17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.4\(19a\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.4\(19a\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.4\(22\)yb2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.4\(22\)yb2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.4\(24\)gc4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.4\(24\)gc4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 1,425 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160715-bgp
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/91800
securitytracker.com / id/1036321