CVE-2014-0720

high

Published 2014-02-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

Cisco IPS Software 7.1 before 7.1(8)E4 and 7.2 before 7.2(2)E4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Analysis Engine process outage) via a flood of jumbo frames, aka Bug ID CSCuh94944.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`{"endIncluding":"7.1\\(1\\)e4"}`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.1\(2\)e4`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.1\(3\)e4`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.1\(4\)e4`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.1\(6\)e4`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.1\(7\)e4`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.1\(8\)e4`
cisco	ips_sensor_software	`7.2\(1\)e4`

References

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.