Cisco Aironet Series Access Points Client Packet Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

published 2020-04-15 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-24531

cvss: 7.4; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in Cisco Aironet Series Access Points Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to the improper processing of client packets that are sent to an affected access point (AP). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of sustained client packets to the affected AP. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected AP to crash, resulting in a DoS condition.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2024-11-15)

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	7.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	3.3	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Aironet Access Point Software

Classification

Weakness

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-airo-wpa-dos-5ZLs6ESz
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-3260
NVD CVE-2020-3260

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