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CVE-2009-2872

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2872 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS versions 12.0 through 12.4 when IP-based tunnels and Cisco Express Forwarding are enabled. A remote, authenticated attacker can trigger a device reload by sending a malformed packet during a tunnel-to-tunnel switching event. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring authentication but 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
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0daCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0da:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0dbCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0db:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0dcCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0dc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0sCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0231 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,974 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

osvdb.org / 58333
tools.cisco.com / security/center/viewAlert.x
Vendor Advisory
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_applied_mitigation_bulletin09186a0080af8113.html
Vendor Advisory
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af8115.shtml
Vendor Advisory
cisco.com / web/about/security/intelligence/Cisco_ERP_sep09.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2759