CVE-2020-3174

Cisco NX-OS Software Anycast Gateway Invalid ARP Vulnerability

MEDIUM

4.7

CVSS Score

Published: February 26, 2020 at 04:50 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:17 AM UTC

80 products affected across 1 vendorNx OSNexus 9508Nexus 93120Tx

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Severity

MEDIUM4.7

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.3%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in the anycast gateway feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a device to learn invalid Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries. The ARP entries are for nonlocal IP addresses for the subnet. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of a received gratuitous ARP (GARP) request. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious GARP packet on the local subnet to cause the ARP table on the device to become corrupted. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to populate the ARP table with incorrect entries, which could lead to traffic disruptions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Nx OS · Cisconpm

95%

8.1(1)8.4(1)9.3(1)

cisco-mds-9132t (environment) · cisco-mds-9148s (environment) · cisco-mds-9148t (environment) · cisco-mds-9216 (environment) · cisco-mds-9216a (environment) · cisco-mds-9216i (environment) · cisco-mds-9222i (environment) · cisco-mds-9506 (environment) · cisco-mds-9509 (environment) · cisco-mds-9513 (environment) · cisco-mds-9706 (environment) · cisco-mds-9710 (environment) · cisco-mds-9718 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3016 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3048 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3064 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3064-t (environment) · cisco-nexus-31108pc-v (environment) · cisco-nexus-31108tc-v (environment) · cisco-nexus-31128pq (environment) · cisco-nexus-3132c-z (environment) · cisco-nexus-3132q (environment) · cisco-nexus-3132q-v (environment) · cisco-nexus-3132q-xl (environment) · cisco-nexus-3164q (environment) · cisco-nexus-3172 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3172pq-xl (environment) · cisco-nexus-3172tq (environment) · cisco-nexus-3172tq-32t (environment) · cisco-nexus-3172tq-xl (environment) · cisco-nexus-3232c (environment) · cisco-nexus-3264c-e (environment) · cisco-nexus-3264q (environment) · cisco-nexus-3408-s (environment) · cisco-nexus-34180yc (environment) · cisco-nexus-3432d-s (environment) · cisco-nexus-3464c (environment) · cisco-nexus-3524 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3524-x (environment) · cisco-nexus-3524-xl (environment) · cisco-nexus-3548 (environment) · cisco-nexus-3548-x (environment) · cisco-nexus-3548-xl (environment) · cisco-nexus-36180yc-r (environment) · cisco-nexus-3636c-r (environment) · cisco-nexus-7000 (environment) · cisco-nexus-7700 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9000v (environment) · cisco-nexus-92160yc-x (environment) · cisco-nexus-92300yc (environment) · cisco-nexus-92304qc (environment) · cisco-nexus-92348gc-x (environment) · cisco-nexus-9236c (environment) · cisco-nexus-9272q (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-ex (environment) · cisco-nexus-93108tc-fx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93120tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93128tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180lc-ex (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-ex (environment) · cisco-nexus-93180yc-fx (environment) · cisco-nexus-93216tc-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-93240yc-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9332c (environment) · cisco-nexus-9332pq (environment) · cisco-nexus-93360yc-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9336c-fx2 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9336pq-aci-spine (environment) · cisco-nexus-9348gc-fxp (environment) · cisco-nexus-9364c (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372px (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372px-e (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9372tx-e (environment) · cisco-nexus-9396px (environment) · cisco-nexus-9396tx (environment) · cisco-nexus-9504 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9508 (environment) · cisco-nexus-9516 (environment)

Mds 9132T · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions

Mds 9148S · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions

Mds 9148T · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions

Mds 9216 · Ciscodevice

80%

All versions