No exploitation reported

CVE-2017-6729

No exploitation reported by the sources we read.

Published2017-07-10

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Description

A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) processing functionality of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Routers and Cisco Virtualized Packet Core (VPC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the BGP process on an affected system to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability affects the following products if they are running the Cisco StarOS operating system and BGP is enabled for the system: Cisco ASR 5000 Series Routers and Cisco Virtualized Packet Core Software. More Information: CSCvc44968. Known Affected Releases: 16.4.1 19.1.0 21.1.0 21.1.M0.65824. Known Fixed Releases: 21.3.A0.65902 21.2.A0.65905 21.1.b0.66164 21.1.V0.66014 21.1.R0.65898 21.1.M0.65894 21.1.0.66030 21.1.0.

Timeline

dates in UTC

2017-07-1020:29CVE publishedNVD

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTC

Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days

Block these indicators

Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-6729?format=txt
CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-6729?format=csv
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Versions per branch

NVD

Cisco asr 5000 softwareversion to verify

Branch	Affected	Fixed in	Source
16.4	= 16.4.1	no fix published	NVD
16.5	= 16.5.0	no fix published	NVD
16.5	= 16.5.2	no fix published	NVD
17.2	= 17.2.0	no fix published	NVD
17.2	= 17.2.0.59184	no fix published	NVD
17.3	= 17.3.0	no fix published	NVD
17.3	= 17.3.1	no fix published	NVD
17.3	= 17.3.9.62033	no fix published	NVD
17.3	= 17.3_base	no fix published	NVD
17.7	= 17.7.0	no fix published	NVD
17.7	= 17.7.5	no fix published	NVD
18.0	= 18.0.0	no fix published	NVD

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Fix

Advisories and patches

tools.cisco.comVendor Advisory

Detection

Nuclei template: none so far
Exploit-DB: no entry
Proof-of-concept repositories: none listed

Sources

NVDCVSS 3.07.5read 2026-10-23
NVDCVSS 2.05read 2026-10-23
FIRST EPSSEPSS score2.3 %2026-10-22

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: 2017-07-10
Last Modified: 2026-06-17
NVD status: Modified

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6729?

Is CVE-2017-6729 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2017-6729 has not been confirmed. Its EPSS score was 2.3% on 2026-10-22, the estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2017-6729?

CVE-2017-6729 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

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