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CVE-2020-3517

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3517 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit insufficient error handling when parsing Cisco Fabric Services messages, leading to process crashes and device reloads. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.6 (High) and can be exploited remotely or adjacently, depending on configuration. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.1, < 1.1.4.179CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:firepower_extensible_operating_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0, < 2.0.1.153CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:firepower_extensible_operating_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.1, < 2.1.1.86CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:firepower_extensible_operating_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.2, < 2.2.1.70CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:firepower_extensible_operating_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0\(2\)a3\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:6.0\(2\)a3\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-fxos-nxos-cfs-dos-dAmnymbd
Vendor Advisory