CVE-2020-3517: Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software

Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Cisco Fabric Services Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.014 · 72nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: cisco) at 27 Aug 2020, 15:40 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco NX-OS Software	affected n/a

Identifiers

CVE-2020-3517

CNA

cisco

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-476

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.6	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (cisco)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.014, the 72nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 27 Aug 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fxos-nxos-cfs-dos-dAmnymbd vendor-advisorycisco

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.