CVE-2012-0378

high
Published 2012-05-03 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.0 through 8.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection limit exceeded) by triggering a large number of stale connections that result in an incorrect value for an MPF connection count, aka Bug ID CSCtv19854.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

CWEs

CWE-189

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.