CVE-2012-4098
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The BGP implementation in Cisco NX-OS does not properly filter AS paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (BGP service reset and resync) via a malformed UPDATE message, aka Bug ID CSCtn13055.
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/98129
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4098
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87675
- http://osvdb.org/98129
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4098
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87675
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.