CVE-2025-20162 – “Cisco DHCP Snooping Denial of Service Vulnerability”

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    May. 07, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability in the DHCP snooping security feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a full interface queue wedge, which could result in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

    This vulnerability is due to improper handling of DHCP request packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending DHCP request packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause packets to wedge in the queue, creating a DoS condition for downstream devices of the affected system and requiring that the system restart to drain the queue.

    Note: This vulnerability can be exploited with either unicast or broadcast DHCP packets on a VLAN that does not have DHCP snooping enabled.

    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added Reference https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-dhcpsn-dos-xBn8Mtks
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