CVE-2026-20084
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
A vulnerability in the DHCP snooping feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause BOOTP packets to be forwarded between VLANs, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of BOOTP packets on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending BOOTP request packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to forward BOOTP packets from one VLAN to another, resulting in BOOTP VLAN leakage and potentially leading to high CPU utilization. This makes the device unreachable (either through console or remote management) and unable to forward traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited with either unicast or broadcast BOOTP packets. There are workarounds that address this vulnerability.
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Cisco IOS XE Software
- Vendor
- Cisco
- Product
- Cisco IOS XE Software
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
Unknown
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.6.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.4a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.9 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.6.10 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.7.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.8.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.8.1a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.8.1s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.1s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.9.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.10.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.10.1s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.10.1e | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.11.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.11.1b | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.11.1s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.1s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.1c | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.2s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.3s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.3a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.4a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.5b | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.6a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 16.12.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.1.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.1.1s | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.1.1t | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.1.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.2.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.2.1a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.2a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.3.8a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.4.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.5.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.1y | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.6a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.5a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.6.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.7.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.10.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.10.1b | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.8.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.4a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.6a | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.9.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.11.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.12.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.12.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.12.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.12.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.12.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.12.1z5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.13.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.14.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.15.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.15.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.15.3 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.15.2b | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.15.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.15.4d | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.16.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.17.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 17.18.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |