CVE-2015-6273
Cisco IOS XE before 3.1.2S on ASR 1000 devices mishandles the automatic setup of Virtual Fragment Reassembly (VFR) by certain firewall and…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cisco IOS XE before 3.1.2S on ASR 1000 devices mishandles the automatic setup of Virtual Fragment Reassembly (VFR) by certain firewall and NAT components, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Embedded Services Processor crash) via crafted IP packets, aka Bug IDs CSCtf87624, CSCte93229, CSCtd19103, and CSCti63623.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- 1033408 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20150827 Cisco IOS XE VFR Feature Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-6215 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-6273)Record last updated .