# 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-2025-20262"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-27T16:23:46.232Z"
updatedAt: "2025-08-27T18:19:53.930Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:24.991Z"
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-2025-20262"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-20262.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20262"
title: "Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 Denial of Service Vulnerability"
summary: "A vulnerability in the Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 (PIM6) feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, remote attacker to trigger a crash of the PIM6 process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to improper processing of PIM6 ephemeral data queries. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted ephemeral query to an affected device through one of the following methods: NX-API REST, NETCONF, RESTConf, gRPC, or Model Driven Telemetry. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the PIM6 process to crash and restart, causing potential adjacency flaps and resulting in a DoS of the PIM6 and ephemeral query processes."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9.2(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(2v)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(2t)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(3y)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(1z)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.1(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(5w)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(7k)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(7a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(8)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(1q)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(9)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.1(2t)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(3t)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(10)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(2a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(11)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(12)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(3v)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(99w)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3w)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(99x)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3o)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3p)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(4a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3q)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(13)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3x)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(4g)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.2(8)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3r)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(14)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(4h)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(4g)","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Cisco","product":"Cisco NX-OS Software","defaultStatus":"unknown"}]

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