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CVE-2020-3429

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3429 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software on Catalyst 9000 Family devices. It stems from incorrect packet processing during WPA2/WPA3 authentication handshakes when 802.11r BSS Fast Transition is enabled, allowing an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to trigger a device reload with a crafted authentication packet. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires adjacent network access (AV:A), with the sole impact being high availability loss (A:H). There is no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code exists in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion is minimal, with only one mention found, and there is no media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
16.12.1sCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.12.1s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 79th 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-wpa-dos-cXshjerc
Vendor Advisory