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CVE-2009-2049

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2049 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting specific versions of Cisco IOS and IOS XE when RFC4893 BGP routing is enabled. A remote attacker can trigger a device reload by sending a malformed BGP update from an RFC4271 peer. With a CVSS score of 5.4, this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public 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

5.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0244 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/36046
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6853
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080aea4c9.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/35860
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2082