Cisco NX-OS Control Plane DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20173) Due to Improper Rate Limiting
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20173, a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS Software that lets an unauthenticated, remote attacker exhaust system resources and cause a denial of service (DoS). The flaw exists because rate limiting is improperly applied to some protocols. The DoS condition clears without manual intervention soon after t…