CVE-1999-0157 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco PIX firewalls and devices utilizing Cisco IOS with Context-Based Access Control (CBAC). An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw by sending specially crafted IP fragments, causing the firewall to become unresponsive. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that results in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.2pCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:11.2p:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.3tCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:11.3t:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.0tCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0t:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:pix_firewall_software:4.2\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.