CVE-2016-1454

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Published 2016-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

7.1

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 through 7.3 and 11.0 through 11.2 on 1000v, 2000, 3000, 3500, 5000, 5500, 5600, 6000, 7000, 7700, and 9000 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) by leveraging a peer relationship to send a crafted BGP UPDATE message, aka Bug IDs CSCuq77105 and CSCux11417.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161005-bgp

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161005-bgp
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93417
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036950
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161005-bgp
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93417
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036950

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.