CVE-2016-6473 is a vulnerability in Cisco IOS on Catalyst Switches and Nexus 9300 Series Switches that allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to trigger a Layer 2 network storm. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating an attack vector that requires adjacent network access with low attack complexity, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. Organizations should prioritize patching affected Cisco IOS versions to mitigate the risk of network disruption.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
15.0\(2\)se8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.0\(2\)se8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.2\(2\)e1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.2\(2\)e1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.2\(2\)e2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.2\(2\)e2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.2\(2a\)e1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.2\(2a\)e1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.2\(3\)eCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.2\(3\)e:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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.