Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Federal due date
2022-03-24
Vendor
Cisco
Product
IOS and IOS XE Software
EPSS
85.8th percentile (score 0.026, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6663

CISA short description

A vulnerability in the Autonomic Networking feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause autonomic nodes of an affected system to reload, resulting in denial-of-service (DoS).

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.