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CVE-2026-20171

Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Border Gateway Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published: May 20, 2026Updated: May 20, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-670
6.8MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 63.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
0 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enforce-first-as feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger BGP peer flaps, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to incorrect parsing of a transitive BGP attribute. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BGP update through an established BGP peer session. If the update propagates to an affected device, it could cause the device to drop the BGP session and flap with the BGP peer that is forwarding this update, resulting in a DoS condition.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:NUI:NS:CC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-670

Affected Products

Cisco Systems Inc.
commercial·USaka Cisco, cisco systems
Cisco NX-OS Software
Networking Infrastructure
NX-OS
Networking Infrastructure

Exploitability

0 exploit sources identified

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Scannable·OpenVAS
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References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-bgp-iefab-3hb2pwtx
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
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