CVE-2026-20171

Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Border Gateway Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 6.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.005
38.0th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
May 20, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enforce-first-as feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger BGP peer flaps, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to incorrect parsing of a transitive BGP attribute. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BGP update through an established BGP peer session. If the update propagates to an affected device, it could cause the device to drop the BGP session and flap with the BGP peer that is forwarding this update, resulting in a DoS condition.

Weakness: CWE-670

Affected products

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