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CVE-2023-20187

HIGH CVSS: 8.6 Published: 2023-09-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A vulnerability in the Multicast Leaf Recycle Elimination (mLRE) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of certain IPv6 multicast packets when they are fanned out more than seven times on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specific IPv6 multicast or IPv6 multicast VPN (MVPNv6) packet through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the affected device, resulting in a DoS condition.

Affected Platforms

Cisco Asr1002-HxCisco Asr1002-XCisco Asr1001-HxCisco Ios XeCisco Asr1000-Esp200Cisco Asr1000-Esp100Cisco Asr1000-Esp40Cisco Asr1001-X

Weakness Type

CWE-823, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References