VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5717

medium
Published 2013-01-18 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.3
VIR risk
6.3

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices with firmware 8.x through 8.4(1) do not properly manage SSH sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device crash) by establishing multiple sessions, aka Bug ID CSCtc59462.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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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/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-5717

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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