Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2018-0172

Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Improper Input Validation Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Cisco
Product IOS and IOS XE Software
Weakness CWE-20

The vulnerability

A vulnerability in the DHCP option 82 encapsulation functionality of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow for denial-of-service (DoS).

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 17 March 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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