CVE Alert: CVE-2025-20162

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Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-20162

A vulnerability in the DHCP snooping security feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a full interface queue wedge, which could result in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of DHCP request packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending DHCP request packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause packets to wedge in the queue, creating a DoS condition for downstream devices of the affected system and requiring that the system restart to drain the queue. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited with either unicast or broadcast DHCP packets on a VLAN that does not have DHCP snooping enabled.

Affected Endpoints:

No affected endpoints listed.

Published Date:

5/7/2025, 6:15:37 PM

🔥 CVSS Score:

CVSS v3 Score: 8.6 (High)

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

References:

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.


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