CVE-2009-4911 describes an unspecified vulnerability in Cisco ASA 5580 series devices running software prior to 8.1(2). This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, causing the device to crash, through specific SSL VPN and PPPoE transactions. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it is considered high severity, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors to achieve a complete loss of availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:asa_5580:8.1\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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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 records are not available for this CVE.