CVE-2012-2488

high
Published 2012-05-31 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Cisco IOS XR before 4.2.1 on ASR 9000 series devices and CRS series devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet transmission outage) via a crafted packet, aka Bug IDs CSCty94537 and CSCtz62593.

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://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120530-iosxr

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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