CVE record · CVE-2023-20176

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Cisco Aironet Access Point Software and others

CVSS 5.8 MediumEPSS 0.0087 · 58th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: cisco) at 27 Sept 2023, 17:25 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 Aironet Access Point Software	affected 8.10.170.0
Cisco	Cisco Aironet Access Point Software (IOS XE Controller)	affected 16.10.1e affected 16.10.1 affected 17.1.1t affected 17.1.1s affected 17.1.1 affected 16.11.1a affected 16.11.1 affected 16.11.1c affected 16.11.1b affected 16.12.1s affected 16.12.4 affected 16.12.1 and 30 more

Identifiers: CVE-2023-20176
CNA: cisco
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400
Tags: Cisco Aironet Access Point Software
Cisco Aironet Access Point Software (IOS XE Controller)
Denial of service
Published: 27 Sept 2023
Updated: 2 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.8	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (cisco)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0087, the 58th 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 Sept 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-click-ap-dos-wdcXkvnQ

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