CVE-2001-0650

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
Severity5Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability2.36 %higher than 84% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

Cisco devices IOS 12.0 and earlier allow a remote attacker to cause a crash, or bad route updates, via malformed BGP updates with unrecognized transitive attribute.

CVSS

Base score
5
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
2.36 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
84
Score date
10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

CWEs

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