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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2026-20171 EUVD-2026-31135GHSA-h75f-8f3x-9m8c

Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Border Gateway Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published May 20, 2026 · Updated May 20, 2026 · Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enforce-first-as feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger BGP peer flaps, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

This vulnerability is due to incorrect parsing of a transitive BGP attribute. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted BGP update through an established BGP peer session. If the update propagates to an affected device, it could cause the device to drop the BGP session and flap with the BGP peer that is forwarding this update, resulting in a DoS condition.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software 10.2(1), 10.2(1q), 10.2(2), 10.2(3), 10.2(3t), 10.2(2a), 10.3(1), 10.2(4), 10.3(2), 10.3(3), 10.2(5), 10.2(3v), 10.4(1), 10.3(99w), 10.2(6), 10.3(3w), 10.3(99x), 10.3(3o), 10.3(4), 10.3(3p), 10.3(4a), 10.4(2), 10.3(3q), 10.3(5), 10.2(7), 10.4(3), 10.3(3x), 10.3(4g), 10.5(1), 10.2(8), 10.3(3r), 10.3… —

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