Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability
Published Oct 5, 2018
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 3.0
EPSS 1.95%
Description
A vulnerability in the implementation of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) functionality in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of certain BGP update messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending BGP update messages that include a specific, malformed attribute to be processed by an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the BGP process to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. The Cisco implementation of BGP accepts incoming BGP traffic only from explicitly defined peers. To exploit this vulnerability, the malicious BGP update message would need to come from a configured, valid BGP peer, or would need to be injected by the attacker into the victim's BGP network on an existing, valid TCP connection to a BGP peer.
Affected products
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco IOS XR Software | n/a |
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No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
CISA SSVC (Vulnrichment)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA ADP.
Exploitation
NoneAutomatable
NoTechnical Impact
PartialDecision
n/aAssessed Nov 25, 2024 · SSVC 2.0.3
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Table of values (12 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 1.95% (0.01954) | 79.56th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 1.95% (0.01954) | 79.37th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00098) | 41.41th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00098) | 41.41th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 22, 2024 | 0.14% (0.00137) | 49.05th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 24, 2024 | 0.18% (0.00182) | 54.51th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 11, 2023 | 0.16% (0.00160) | 52.39th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.16% (0.00157) | 50.35th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.05% (0.01055) | 52.13th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.05% (0.01055) | 27.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 0.98% (0.00976) | 26.54th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 0.98% (0.00976) | 0.00th | v1 |
References (2)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041790 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-iosxr-dos vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041790 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry | |
| https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-iosxr-dos | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOVendor Advisory |
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