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CVE-2012-5036
Cisco IOS before 12.2(50)SY1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a sequence of VTY…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- cisco
Description
Cisco IOS before 12.2(50)SY1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a sequence of VTY management sessions (aka exec sessions), aka Bug ID CSCtn43662.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (1)
- http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SY/release/notes/ol_20679.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (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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