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CVE-2022-20624

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20624 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services over IP (CFSoIP) feature of Cisco NX-OS Software, affecting Cisco Nexus switches. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit insufficient validation of incoming CFSoIP packets to cause an affected device to reload. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a high impact on availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including an article from SecurityWeek.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:7.0\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:9.2\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:9.2\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.3\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:9.3\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.3\(5\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:9.3\(5\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1240 is in the 94th 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-cfsoip-dos-tpykyDr
Vendor Advisory