CVE-2000-0700: Cisco Gigabit Switch Router 12008

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco Gigabit Switch Routers (GSR) with Fast Ethernet / Gigabit Ethernet cards, from IOS versions 11.2(15)GS1A up to 11.2(19)GS0.2 and some versions of 12.0, do not properly handle line card failures, which allows remote attackers to bypass ACLs or force the interface to stop forwarding packets.

Affected products

• Cisco Gigabit Switch Router 12008: any version
• Cisco Gigabit Switch Router 12012: any version
• Cisco Gigabit Switch Router 12016: any version
• Cisco IOS: version 11.2 only; version 11.2(8) only; version 11.2(10) only; version 11.2p only; version 11.3 only; version 11.3(1) only; …

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.