CVE-2009-5038 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco IOS versions prior to 15.0(1)XA. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a device reload by sending specific IRC traffic during a brief period after an initial system restart, due to a "corrupted magic value." With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to 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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 15.0\(1\)xaCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
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.