CVE-2026-20033Cisco NX-OS Software Denial of Service Vulnerability
- 7.4HighCVSS base score
- 0.17%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation when processing specific Ethernet frames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted Ethernet frame to the management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: Only the out-of-band (OOB) management interface is affected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.17% · top 93% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode
- affected 15.2(1g)
- affected 15.2(2e)
- affected 15.2(2f)
- affected 15.2(2g)
- affected 15.2(2h)
- affected 15.2(3f)
- affected 15.2(3e)
- affected 15.2(3g)
- affected 15.2(4d)
- affected 15.2(4e)
- affected 15.2(5c)
- affected 15.2(5d)
- affected 16.0(1g)
- affected 15.2(5e)
- affected 15.2(4f)
- affected 15.2(6e)
- affected 15.2(6h)
- affected 16.0(1j)
- affected 15.2(6g)
- affected 15.2(7f)
- affected 15.2(7g)
- affected 16.0(2h)
- affected 15.2(8d)
- affected 16.0(2j)
- affected 15.2(8e)
- affected 16.0(3d)
- affected 16.0(3e)
- affected 15.2(8f)
- affected 15.2(8g)
- affected 15.3(1d)
- affected 15.2(8h)
- affected 16.0(4c)
- affected 15.3(2a)
- affected 15.2(8i)
- affected 16.0(5h)
- affected 15.3(2b)
- affected 16.0(3g)
- affected 16.0(5j)
- affected 15.3(2c)
- affected 16.0(6c)
- and 17 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References
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-2026-8665 (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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-20033)Record last updated .