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Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-3516

CVE-2020-3516

Description

A vulnerability in the web server authentication of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to crash the web server on the device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation during authentication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by entering unexpected characters during a valid authentication. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to crash the web server on the device, which must be manually recovered by disabling and re-enabling the web server.

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