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CVE-2009-2871
Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS 12.2 and 12.4, when SSLVPN sessions, SSH sessions, or IKE encrypted nonces are enabled, allows…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS 12.2 and 12.4, when SSLVPN sessions, SSH sessions, or IKE encrypted nonces are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a crafted encrypted packet, aka Bug ID CSCsq24002.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 40 days later
· 40 days 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)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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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
4
- 20090923 Cisco IOS Software Crafted Encryption Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 1022930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2759 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=18892 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2009-2861 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-2871)Record last updated .