CVE-2012-2472

high
Published 2012-08-06 · 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 8.2 and 8.4, when SIP inspection is enabled, create many identical pre-allocated secondary pinholes, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted SIP traffic, aka Bug ID CSCtz63143.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa84/release/notes/asarn84.html

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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