Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI Mode Policy-Based Redirect Endpoint Group Contract Bypass Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode)

CVE-2026-20038
MEDIUM 5.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.30 % · percentile 23 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in the endpoint group (EPG) contract functionality of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI Mode could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured EPG contracts. This vulnerability is due to an improper control with EPG contracts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending IPv4 or IPv6 packets using UDP source and destination ports that are assigned to DHCP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass EPG contracts on the affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Modeaffected 15.2(1g) ; affected 15.2(2e) ; affected 15.2(2f) ; affected 15.2(2g) ; affected 15.2(2h) ; affected 15.2(3f)

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD