Cisco IOS and IOS XE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-25
Federal due date
2022-04-15
Vendor
Cisco
Product
IOS and IOS XE
EPSS
99.9th percentile (score 0.943, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3881

CISA short description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Cluster Management Protocol (CMP) processing code in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of an affected device or remotely execute code with elevated privileges.

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.