A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol implementation for Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a reload on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of string input from certain fields in Cisco Discovery Protocol messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious Cisco Discovery Protocol packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a stack overflow, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges on an affected device. Cisco Discovery Protocol is a Layer 2 protocol. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be in the same broadcast domain as the affected device (Layer 2 adjacent).
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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2021-11-03'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2020-02-05T17:40:16.080Z

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:52.708Z

Reserved: 2019-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-3118

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T07:24:00.571Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-02-05T18:15:10.907

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:17:07.107

Link: CVE-2020-3118

cve-icon Redhat

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