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CVE-2010-4679

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4679 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco ASA 5500 series devices running software prior to version 8.2(3). This flaw stems from improper handling of OCSP connection failures, allowing remote OCSP responders to exhaust TCP sockets by rejecting connection attempts. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (high severity), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low complexity, 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
<= 8.2\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0\(0\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(0\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0\(4\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(4\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0113 is in the 41st 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/42931
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64605
cisco.com / en/US/docs/security/asa/asa82/release/notes/asarn82.pdf
securityfocus.com / bid/45767
securitytracker.com / id