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CVE-2026-20084

Cisco / Cisco IOS XE Software PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A vulnerability in the DHCP snooping feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause BOOTP packets to be forwarded between VLANs, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of BOOTP packets on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending BOOTP request packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to forward BOOTP packets from one VLAN to another, resulting in BOOTP VLAN leakage and potentially leading to high CPU utilization. This makes the device unreachable (either through console or remote management) and unable to forward traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited with either unicast or broadcast BOOTP packets. There are workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Cisco / Cisco IOS XE Softwareaffected 16.6.1; affected 16.6.2; affected 16.6.3; affected 16.6.4; affected 16.6.5; affected 16.6.4a; affected 16.6.6; affected 16.6.7; affected 16.6.8; affected 16.6.9; affected 16.6.10; affected 16.7.1; affected 16.8.1; affected 16.8.1a; affected 16.8.1s; affected 16.9.1; affected 16.9.2; affected 16.9.1s; affected 16.9.3; affected 16.9.4; affected 16.9.5; affected 16.9.6; affected 16.9.7; affected 16.9.8; affected 16.10.1; affected 16.10.1s; affected 16.10.1e; affected 16.11.1; affected 16.11.1b; affected 16.11.1s; affected 16.12.1; affected 16.12.1s; affected 16.12.1c; affected 16.12.2; affected 16.12.3; affected 16.12.8; affected 16.12.2s; affected 16.12.4; affected 16.12.3s; affected 16.12.3a; affected 16.12.4a; affected 16.12.5; affected 16.12.6; affected 16.12.5b; affected 16.12.6a; affected 16.12.7; affected 17.1.1; affected 17.1.1s; affected 17.1.1t; affected 17.1.3; affected 17.2.1; affected 17.2.1a; affected 17.3.1; affected 17.3.2; affected 17.3.3; affected 17.3.2a; affected 17.3.4; affected 17.3.5; affected 17.3.6; affected 17.3.7; affected 17.3.8; affected 17.3.8a; affected 17.4.1; affected 17.5.1; affected 17.6.1; affected 17.6.2; affected 17.6.3; affected 17.6.1y; affected 17.6.4; affected 17.6.5; affected 17.6.6; affected 17.6.6a; affected 17.6.5a; affected 17.6.7; affected 17.6.8; affected 17.7.1; affected 17.10.1; affected 17.10.1b; affected 17.8.1; affected 17.9.1; affected 17.9.2; affected 17.9.3; affected 17.9.4; affected 17.9.5; affected 17.9.4a; affected 17.9.6; affected 17.9.6a; affected 17.9.7; affected 17.9.8; affected 17.11.1; affected 17.12.1; affected 17.12.2; affected 17.12.3; affected 17.12.4; affected 17.12.5; affected 17.12.1z5; affected 17.13.1; affected 17.14.1; affected 17.15.1; affected 17.15.2; affected 17.15.3; affected 17.15.2b; affected 17.15.4; affected 17.15.4d; affected 17.16.1; affected 17.17.1; affected 17.18.1

CWE

CWE-400

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.