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CVE-2010-3035

High 7.5 Exploited in the wild (KEV)

Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog

Name
Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Added to catalog
Remediation due date (US federal)
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Description

Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.9.1, when BGP is enabled, does not properly handle unrecognized transitive attributes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peering reset) via a crafted prefix announcement, as demonstrated in the wild in August 2010 with attribute type code 99, aka Bug ID CSCti62211.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
7.5 (HIGH) Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
6% (percentile: 93) as of 1 November 2026

Affected products

cisco: ios xr

References