Cisco Video Surveillance 8000 Series IP Cameras Cisco Discovery Protocol Memory Leak Vulnerability

published 2020-08-26 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-24776

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol of Cisco Video Surveillance 8000 Series IP Cameras could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a memory leak, which could lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of certain Cisco Discovery Protocol packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending certain Cisco Discovery Protocol packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to continuously consume memory, which could cause the device to crash and reload, resulting in a DOS condition. Note: Cisco Discovery Protocol is a Layer 2 protocol. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be in the same broadcast domain as the affected device (Layer 2 adjacent).

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2024-11-13)

Exploit prediction

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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	6.1	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Video Surveillance 8000 Series IP Cameras

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cdp-memleak-k5Z7m55t
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-3505
NVD CVE-2020-3505

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