# 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-2026-20173"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-07T16:12:04.505Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-07T17:42:39.672Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
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-2026-20173"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-20173.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20173"
title: "Cisco NX-OS Software Denial of Service Vulnerability"
summary: "A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust system resources, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability exists because rate limiting was improperly applied to some protocols. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of UDP or TCP connections to a data plane interface on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause instability to various routing and control plane protocols through some packet loss and temporary disruptions, causing a DoS condition. This DoS condition will clear without manual intervention soon after the high rate of traffic is stopped."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8.2(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(5)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(2v)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(4)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(1)","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":"8.1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.3(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(2)D1(3a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.1(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(3)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(0)DX(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(2)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(2)D1(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(1z)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.2(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.1(2a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(2)D1(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.3(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(1)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(0)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(2)D1(1d)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(6)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(7)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(5w)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(7k)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(8)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(7a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(7a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(8)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(4a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(8)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(9)","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.3(9)D1(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(10)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(9)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(2)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(6a)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(11)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.2(10)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(12)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(1)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(8)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(99w)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3w)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(99x)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(3o)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(9)","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":"8.2(11)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(5)","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":"8.4(10)","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":"8.4(11)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(3)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(15)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(4g)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(4)","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.4(12)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(3t)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.3(8)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(6)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(3s)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(3e)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(3o)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(16)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(3p)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.4(7)","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.5(5)","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.3(17)","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Cisco","product":"Cisco NX-OS Software","defaultStatus":"unknown"}]

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