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CVE-2010-1579

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1579 is an unspecified vulnerability in the SunRPC inspection feature of Cisco ASA 5500 and PIX 500 series devices running specific software versions. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw by sending crafted SunRPC UDP packets, leading to a denial of service through a device reload. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in complete loss of availability. There is no known public exploit code, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.2\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:7.2\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.2\(4\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:7.2\(4\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.2\(5\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:7.2\(5\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:8.0\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:8.0\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0177 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/40842
Vendor Advisory
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080b3f12f.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory