Cisco IoT Field Network Director Denial of Service Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
A vulnerability in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) implementation of Cisco IoT Field Network Director could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of incoming CoAP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed CoAP packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to force the CoAP server to stop, interrupting communication to the IoT endpoints.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-3162
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qwp9-wc7v-7pg4
References
More Cisco Iot Field Network Director vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-03077 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Unauthenticated REST API Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-01577 Cisco IoT Field Network Director TLS Renegotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2019-01270 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-15928 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-15924 Cisco IoT Field Network Director SOAP API Authorization Bypass Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2020-3162 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-3162 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qwp9-wc7v-7pg4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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