CVE-2015-0654

high

Published 2015-03-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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

Race condition in the TLS implementation in MainApp in the management interface in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Software before 7.3(3)E4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) by establishing many HTTPS sessions, aka Bug ID CSCuq40652.

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	intrusion_prevention_system	`7.2\(1\)e4`
cisco	intrusion_prevention_system	`7.2\(2\)e4`
cisco	intrusion_prevention_system	`7.3\(2\)e4`

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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