CVE-2025-20262 (GCVE-0-2025-20262)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-27 16:23 – Updated: 2025-08-27 18:19
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Title
Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary
A vulnerability in the Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 (PIM6) feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, remote attacker to trigger a crash of the PIM6 process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper processing of PIM6 ephemeral data queries. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted ephemeral query to an affected device through one of the following methods: NX-API REST, NETCONF, RESTConf, gRPC, or Model Driven Telemetry. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the PIM6 process to crash and restart, causing potential adjacency flaps and resulting in a DoS of the PIM6 and ephemeral query processes.
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software Affected: 9.2(3)
Affected: 9.2(2v)
Affected: 9.2(1)
Affected: 9.2(2t)
Affected: 9.2(3y)
Affected: 9.3(2)
Affected: 9.2(4)
Affected: 9.3(1)
Affected: 9.3(1z)
Affected: 9.2(2)
Affected: 9.3(3)
Affected: 9.3(4)
Affected: 9.3(5)
Affected: 9.3(6)
Affected: 10.1(2)
Affected: 10.1(1)
Affected: 9.3(5w)
Affected: 9.3(7)
Affected: 9.3(7k)
Affected: 10.2(1)
Affected: 9.3(7a)
Affected: 9.3(8)
Affected: 10.2(1q)
Affected: 10.2(2)
Affected: 9.3(9)
Affected: 10.1(2t)
Affected: 10.2(3)
Affected: 10.2(3t)
Affected: 9.3(10)
Affected: 10.2(2a)
Affected: 10.3(1)
Affected: 10.2(4)
Affected: 10.3(2)
Affected: 9.3(11)
Affected: 10.3(3)
Affected: 10.2(5)
Affected: 9.3(12)
Affected: 10.2(3v)
Affected: 10.4(1)
Affected: 10.3(99w)
Affected: 10.2(6)
Affected: 10.3(3w)
Affected: 10.3(99x)
Affected: 10.3(3o)
Affected: 10.3(4)
Affected: 10.3(3p)
Affected: 10.3(4a)
Affected: 10.4(2)
Affected: 10.3(3q)
Affected: 9.3(13)
Affected: 10.3(5)
Affected: 10.2(7)
Affected: 10.4(3)
Affected: 10.3(3x)
Affected: 10.3(4g)
Affected: 10.5(1)
Affected: 10.2(8)
Affected: 10.3(3r)
Affected: 10.3(6)
Affected: 9.3(14)
Affected: 10.4(4)
Affected: 10.3(4h)
Affected: 10.5(2)
Affected: 10.4(4g)
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