CVE-2010-3035
Published 2010-08-30 · Updated 2026-06-16 · Source psirt@cisco.com
Summary
CVE-2010-3035 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Cisco has 101 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 7 of them linked to ransomware.
All 101 known-exploited Cisco vulnerabilities →Description
Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.9.1, when BGP is enabled, does not properly handle unrecognized transitive attributes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peering reset) via a crafted prefix announcement, as demonstrated in the wild in August 2010 with attribute type code 99, aka Bug ID CSCti62211.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Cisco — IOS XR
Name: Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-25 · Due: 2022-04-15
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-August/024837.html
- http://osvdb.org/67696
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41190
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080b4411f.shtml
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024371
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2227
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61443
- http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-August/024837.html

