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CVE-2010-2979

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2979 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco Unified Wireless Network (UWN) Solution 7.x on 5508 series controllers. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending crafted ARP requests, leading to a buffer leak and device crash due to an ARP storm. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:unified_wireless_network_solution_software:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.98.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:unified_wireless_network_solution_software:7.0.98.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisco.com / en/US/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn7.0.html