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Cisco IE 1000 CVE-2026-20177

| EUVDEUVD-2026-62559 MEDIUM
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770)
2026-08-19 cisco GHSA-rvq7-6xgp-76jg
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: cisco
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Vendor (cisco) PRIMARY
5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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5.3 MEDIUM

Network-accessible management plane requires no privileges or interaction; only management availability is partially impacted, with no confidentiality, integrity, or data-plane effect.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVSS VectorVendor: cisco

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Analysis Generated
Aug 19, 2026 - 17:15 vuln.today
CVE Published
Aug 19, 2026 - 16:16 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

AnalysisAI

Management plane flood protection deficiency in Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches enables unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust CPU resources, rendering the device manager web GUI, SSH, and API inaccessible. All firmware branches from 1.1 through 1.9.5 are confirmed affected per EUVD-2026-62559. …

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Exploitation The attacker must have network-level reachability to the management interface of an affected Cisco IE 1000 switch and must be able to sustain a high packet rate of ICMP, SSH (TCP/22), or HTTP/HTTPS traffic directed at the device. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment CVSS 5.3 Medium with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L correctly captures the technical severity: trivially launched over the network with no authentication, but constrained to partial availability impact on management interfaces only. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
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Remediation The primary fix is to upgrade to the patched firmware version identified in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-ie1k-uxq86Lnx (https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ie1k-uxq86Lnx); the exact fixed firmware version number is not independently confirmed from the data provided and must be verified directly from the advisory. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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