CVSS 3.1
8.6 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-0157
High (8.6) in cisco ios xe. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A vulnerability in the Zone-Based Firewall code of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a device to reload. The vulnerability is due to the way fragmented packets are handled in the firewall code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending fragmented IP Version 4 or IP Version 6 packets through an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The following releases of Cisco IOS XE Software are vulnerable: Everest-16.4.1, Everest-16.4.2, Everest-16.5.1, Everest-16.5.1b, Everest-16.6.1, Everest-16.6.1a. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf60296.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-19
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cisco:ios_xe