01 Record
CVE-2016-1409
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE 2.1 through 3.17S, IOS XR 2.0.0 through 5.3.2, and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: cisco
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE 2.1 through 3.17S, IOS XR 2.0.0 through 5.3.2, and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.89% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-05-29 22:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 22:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-01-04
- Assigning CNA
- cisco
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9566495336a22ea105e9d644dca348e7a1ab8b61e05cf2ce58b2a9079e6ee866
05 Affected products
06 References
- tools.cisco.com20160525 Cisco Products IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerabilityhttp://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160525-ipv6
- www.securitytracker.com1035964http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035964
- www.securityfocus.com90872http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90872
- www.securitytracker.com1035965http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035965
- www.securitytracker.com1035962http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035962
- www.securitytracker.com1036651http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036651
- www.huawei.comhttp://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-ipv6-en
- www.securitytracker.com1035963http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035963