CVE-2016-6401

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.008 · 56 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.80% (56th) EPSS

CVSS 5.7 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) 5.1 and 5.1.4, as used in CRS Carrier Grade Services for CRS-1 and CRS-3 devices, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (line-card reload) via crafted IPv6-over-MPLS packets, aka Bug ID CSCva32494.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05.7mediumAV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 5.5 · impact 6.9

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 3.6

v3.04.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
cisco carrier routing system= 5.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:cisco:carrier_routing_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco carrier routing system= 5.1_basenvdUScpe:2.3:a:cisco:carrier_routing_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-09-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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