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CVE-2009-2868

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2868 describes an unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS versions 12.2 through 12.4, specifically when certificate-based authentication is enabled for IKE. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by exhausting Phase 1 Security Associations through crafted requests. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.2exCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2ex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2iraCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2ira:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2irbCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2irb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2ircCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2irc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2sbCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2sb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/viewAlert.x
Vendor Advisory
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af8117.shtml
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2759