CVE-2025-20209

Cisco IOS XR Software Internet Key Exchange Version 2 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
High 7.5
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.005
40.5th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Mar 12, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) function of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to prevent an affected device from processing any control plane UDP packets.  This vulnerability is due to improper handling of malformed IKEv2 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed IKEv2 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to prevent the affected device from processing any control plane UDP packets, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-770

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco IOS XR Software Routing & Switching cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco IOS XR Software