VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5030

medium
Published 2017-08-02 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Cisco IOS before 15.2(4)S6 does not initialize an unspecified variable, which might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, watchdog timeout, crash) by walking specific SNMP objects.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/15_2s/release/notes/15_2s_rel_notes/15_2s_caveats_15_2_4s.html

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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