# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-20049"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-03-09T00:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-10-28T16:33:14.713Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-20049"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-20049.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-20049"
title: "Cisco IOS XR Software for ASR 9000 Series Routers Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Denial of Service Vulnerability"
summary: "A vulnerability in the bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) hardware offload feature of Cisco IOS XR Software for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, ASR 9902 Compact High-Performance Routers, and ASR 9903 Compact High-Performance Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a line card to reset, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to the incorrect handling of malformed BFD packets that are received on line cards where the BFD hardware offload feature is enabled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted IPv4 BFD packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause line card exceptions or a hard reset, resulting in loss of traffic over that line card while the line card reloads."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Cisco","product":"Cisco IOS XR Software"}]

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