Cisco NX-OS Software IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability in the IPv6 traffic processing of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the netstack process on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of IPv6 traffic sent through an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed IPv6 packet through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition while the netstack process restarts. A sustained attack could lead to a reboot of the device.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.

Weakness

• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Cisco · Cisco NX-OS Software 8.1(1)

  • affected unspecified – < 8.4(1)

What to do

Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

References (1)

• 20190828 Cisco NX-OS Software IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2019-1964](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2019-1964.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2019-1964)

Record last updated 19 Nov 2024, 18:58 UTC.