CVE-2016-6441

critical

Published 2016-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

A vulnerability in the Transaction Language 1 (TL1) code of Cisco ASR 900 Series routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of, or remotely execute code on, the affected system. This vulnerability affects Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR902, ASR903, and ASR907) that are running the following releases of Cisco IOS XE Software: 3.17.0S 3.17.1S 3.17.2S 3.18.0S 3.18.1S. More Information: CSCuy15175. Known Affected Releases: 15.6(1)S 15.6(2)S. Known Fixed Releases: 15.6(1)S2.12 15.6(1.17)S0.41 15.6(1.17)SP 15.6(2)SP 16.4(0.183) 16.5(0.10).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.