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CVE-2018-0257

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-0257 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XE Software on Cisco cBR Series Converged Broadband Routers. It allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause high CPU usage by sending specially crafted DHCP packets. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.3), the attack requires network adjacency but no user interaction, leading to a DoS condition. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.18, <= 3.18.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.6, <= 16.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
> 16.7, <= 16.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.6\(2\)spCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:15.6\(2\)sp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0080 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 1,802 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-20180418-cbr8
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103948
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040716
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry