CVE-2009-1165
Memory leak on the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) platform 4.x before 4.2.205.0, 5.1 before 5.1.163.0, and 5.0 and 5.2 before…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Memory leak on the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) platform 4.x before 4.2.205.0, 5.1 before 5.1.163.0, and 5.0 and 5.2 before 5.2.178.0, as used in Cisco 1500 Series, 2000 Series, 2100 Series, 4100 Series, 4200 Series, and 4400 Series Wireless Services Modules (WiSM), WLC Modules for Integrated Services Routers, and Catalyst 3750G Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and device reload) via SSH management connections, aka Bug ID CSCsw40789.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References4
- 20090727 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 1022605 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2021 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 35817 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-1165 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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