Multiple Cisco networking products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service on the local network via a series of ARP packets sent
Multiple Cisco networking products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service on the local network via a series of ARP packets sent to the router's interface that contains a different MAC address for the router, which eventually causes the router to overwrite the MAC address in its ARP table.
- Published
- Nov 15, 2001
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 2.4% · 83th percentile
- CWE
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Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 2.4%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | catalyst 2900xl | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_2900xl |
| cisco | catalyst 2948g-l3 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_2948g-l3 |
| cisco | catalyst 2950 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_2950 |
| cisco | catalyst 3500xl | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_3500xl |
| cisco | catalyst 3550 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_3550 |
| cisco | catalyst 4000 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_4000 |
| cisco | catalyst 4908g-l3 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_4908g-l3 |
| cisco | catalyst 5000 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_5000 |
| cisco | catalyst 6000 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_6000 |
| cisco | catalyst 8500 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_8500 |
| cisco | distributed director | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:distributed_director |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco catalyst 2900xlall versions
- cisco catalyst 2948g-l3all versions
- cisco catalyst 2950all versions
- cisco catalyst 3500xlall versions
- cisco catalyst 3550all versions
- cisco catalyst 4000all versions
- cisco catalyst 4908g-l3all versions
- cisco catalyst 5000all versions
- cisco catalyst 6000all versions
- cisco catalyst 8500all versions
- cisco distributed directorall versions
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
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No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/IOS-arp-overwrite-vuln-pub.shtml
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/399355
- www.osvdb.org/807
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3547
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7547
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.