CVE-2026-20177

Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
32.3th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Vendor-published field
Published
Aug 19, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the handling of management plane packets by Cisco Industrial Ethernet (IE) 1000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device manager, SSH, or API to become inaccessible.This vulnerability is due to insufficient protection against management plane flooding attacks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of ICMP, SSH, or HTTP traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the CPU of the device to increase, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the device manager web GUI, SSH, or API. Data traffic through the device is not affected.

Weakness: CWE-770

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switches Routing & Switching cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switches

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