CVE-2012-4091
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The RIP service engine in Cisco NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine restart) via a malformed (1) RIPv4 or (2) RIPv6 message, aka Bug ID CSCtj73415.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://osvdb.org/98124
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4091
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62838
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029159
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87669
- http://osvdb.org/98124
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4091
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62838
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029159
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87669
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.