CVE-2017-6736

CRITICALNVD 8.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2017-15790 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 70%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

The vendor states that a fix is released ("Fixed software information is available via the Cisco IOS Software Checker"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version — check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to remotely execute code on an affected system or cause an affected system to reload. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending a crafted SNMP packet to an affected system via IPv4 or IPv6. Only traffic directed to an affected system can be used to exploit these vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are due to a buffer overflow condition in the SNMP subsystem of the affected software. The vulnerabilities affect all versions of SNMP - Versions 1, 2c, and 3. To exploit these vulnerabilities via SNMP Version 2c or earlier, the attacker must know the SNMP read-only community string for the affected system. To exploit these vulnerabilities via SNMP Version 3, the attacker must have user credentials for the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code and obtain full control of the affected system or cause the affected system to reload. Customers are advised to apply the workaround as contained in the Workarounds section below. Fixed software information is available via the Cisco IOS Software Checker. All devices that have enabled SNMP and have not explicitly excluded the affected MIBs or OIDs should be considered vulnerable. There are workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
80
EG Risk 80/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: The vendor states that a fix is released ("Fixed software information is available via the Cisco IOS Software Checker"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version. Check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
70%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
70% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

The vendor states that a fix is released ("Fixed software information is available via the Cisco IOS Software Checker"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version. Check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6736

Published

July 17, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Vendor states a fix is released — the CVE record does not name the version. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-6736
Web page

Cisco IOS - Remote Code Execution - Hardware remote Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43450/
Web page

SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170629-snmp
Web page🟡 PoC Available

GitHub - artkond/cisco-snmp-rce: Cisco IOS SNMP RCE PoC · GitHub

https://github.com/artkond/cisco-snmp-rce
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99345
Web page

SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170629-snmp

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 121× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,025 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 925 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 10:36 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 10:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  3. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 70% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-31 10:26 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 10:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  6. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 70% · 99th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-30 10:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  9. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 70% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-29 10:09 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-29 10:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  12. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 70% · 99th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-28 09:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  17. 2026-10-27 09:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  19. 2026-10-26 09:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  23. 2026-10-25 09:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  3. 2026-10-23 09:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  5. 2026-10-22 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  8. 2026-10-21 08:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  10. 2026-10-20 08:50 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-20 08:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  16. 2026-10-18 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  20. 2026-10-16 08:11 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-16 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  24. 2026-10-15 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  27. 2026-10-14 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  29. 2026-10-13 07:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  45. 2026-10-10 17:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  59. 2026-10-08 15:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  63. 2026-10-08 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  65. 2026-10-07 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7vrx-w4v5-hwph · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-43450
    Published Jan 5, 2018

    Cisco IOS - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2017-6736?
CVE-2017-6736 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 17, 2017. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to remotely execute code on an affected system or cause an affected system to reload. An attacker could exploit these…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2017-6736 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2017-6736 was published on July 17, 2017. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-6736 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2017-6736 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, affecting Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. The vendor states that a fix is released ("Fixed software information is available via the Cisco IOS Software Checker"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version. Check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-6736?
CVE-2017-6736 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2017-6736?
CVE-2017-6736 affects Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software.
How do I remediate CVE-2017-6736?
The CVE record for CVE-2017-6736 states that the vendor has released a fix: "Fixed software information is available via the Cisco IOS Software Checker." The record does not name the fixed version: check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and update to it.

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