CVE-2019-16021: Cisco IOS XR Software BGP EVPN Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.
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What to do now held facts and links
- No fix version is held. The CNA's first reference is the place to look: tools.cisco.com
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
Multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) functionality in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are due to incorrect processing of BGP update messages that contain crafted EVPN attributes. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending BGP EVPN update messages with malformed attributes to be processed by an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the BGP process to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. The Cisco implementation of BGP accepts incoming BGP traffic only from explicitly defined peers. …
- weakness
- CWE-399
- affected
- Cisco IOS XR Software
- published ranges
- cisco ios xr 6.6.1; cisco ios xr 6.6.2; cisco ios xr 6.6.25; cisco ios xr 7.0.1
- fixed in
- No fix version in held sources.
- severity
- 8.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- assigned by
- cisco
- published
- 2020-09-23
check us tools.cisco.com
Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Apr 2021 | 0.00651 | |
| 6 Jan 2022 | 0.02857 | |
| 4 Feb 2022 | 0.04499 | |
| 1 Apr 2022 | 0.01055 | |
| 7 Mar 2023 | 0.00137 | scoring model v2023.03.01 |
| 17 Mar 2025 | 0.00751 | scoring model v2025.03.14 |
| 28 Dec 2025 | 0.01625 | |
| 13 May 2026 | 0.01311 | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.01458 | scoring model v2026.06.15 |
| 18 Jun 2026 | 0.01476 |
22 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.01 on 2026-06-18 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- No fix version is held. One published by the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2019-16021', '2026-10-31T23:59:59.999999Z', now());