MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2001-1097

Ios vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
4.3%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Cisco routers and switches running IOS 12.0 through 12.2.1 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a flood of UDP packets.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Ios
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2001-07-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2001-1097

  • Confirm whether Cisco Ios is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2001-1097.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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