CVE-2026-20177

medium Cisco
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score
0.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 68% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Published: August 19, 2026 (18 days ago)
Last Modified: August 20, 2026
Vendor: Cisco
Source: NVD

Description

A vulnerability in the handling of management plane packets by Cisco Industrial Ethernet (IE) 1000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device manager, SSH, or API to become inaccessible.This vulnerability is due to insufficient protection against management plane flooding attacks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of ICMP, SSH, or HTTP traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the CPU of the device to increase, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the device manager web GUI, SSH, or API. Data traffic through the device is not affected.

CWE

CWE-770

References

🔗 sec.cloudapps.cisco.com