Cisco IOS Software Network Address Translation Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Federal due date
2022-03-24
Vendor
Cisco
Product
IOS software
EPSS
92.9th percentile (score 0.093, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12231

CISA short description

A vulnerability in the implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT) functionality in Cisco IOS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.