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CVE-2022-20694

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process to crash, resulting in a denial of…

MEDIUM 6.8EPSS 1.18%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to the incorrect handling of a specific RPKI to Router (RTR) Protocol packet header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by compromising the RPKI validator server and sending a specifically crafted RTR packet to an affected device. Alternatively, the attacker could use man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate the RPKI validator server and send a crafted RTR response packet over the established RTR TCP connection to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition because the BGP process could constantly restart and BGP routing could become unstable.

CVSS 3.1
6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.18% probability · 67th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-617
Affected
cisco/ios xe
Source
psirt@cisco.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.18%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.