CVE-2012-5014 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cisco IOS before 15.1(2)SY allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device crash) by establishing an SSH session from a client and then placing this client into a (1) slow or (2) idle state, aka Bug ID CSCto87436.

Published: 2014-04-23

Score: 6.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(1\)sy:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(1\)sy1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(1\)sy2:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-4938	Cisco IOS before 15.1(2)SY allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device crash) by establishing an SSH session from a client and then placing this client into a (1) slow or (2) idle state, aka Bug ID CSCto87436.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0034.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/15-1SY/release_notes.pdf

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Ios

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2014-04-23T10:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:50:18.487Z

Reserved: 2012-09-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-5014

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-04-23T11:52:59.150

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2012-5014

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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