Cisco IOS and IOS XE Group Encrypted Transport VPN Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2023-10-10
Federal due date
2023-10-31
Vendor
Cisco
Product
IOS and IOS XE
EPSS
70.7th percentile (score 0.006, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20109

CISA short description

Cisco IOS and IOS XE contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN) feature that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker who has administrative control of either a group member or a key server to execute malicious code or cause a device to crash.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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.