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CVE-2009-1168

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1168 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting specific versions of Cisco IOS and IOS XE when RFC4893 BGP routing is enabled. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending a BGP update with an excessively long series of AS numbers from an RFC4271 peer, leading to memory corruption and device reload. With a CVSS score of 7.1, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its network-based attack vector, medium attack complexity, and high impact on availability. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.0\(32\)s12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(32\)s12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(32\)s13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(32\)s13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(32\)sy8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(32\)sy8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(32\)sy9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(32\)sy9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(33\)s3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(33\)s3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.1HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

secunia.com / advisories/36046
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6697
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080aea4c9.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/35862
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2082