CVE-2015-4293: Cisco IOS XE

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The packet-reassembly implementation in Cisco IOS XE 3.13S and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or packet loss) via fragmented (1) IPv4 or (2) IPv6 packets that trigger ATTN-3-SYNC_TIMEOUT errors after reassembly failures, aka Bug ID CSCuo37957.

Affected products

• Cisco IOS XE: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only; …

Published 2015-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.