CVE-2012-2488 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XR on ASR 9000 and CRS series devices prior to version 4.2.1. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted packet, leading to a complete outage of packet transmission. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:asr_9000_rsp440_router:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xr:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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