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CVE-2012-2472

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2472 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco ASA 5500 series devices running software versions 8.2 and 8.4 when SIP inspection is enabled. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending crafted SIP traffic, leading to excessive CPU consumption due to the creation of numerous identical pre-allocated secondary pinholes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a critical impact on availability, and there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.2\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.2\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.2\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2\(3.9\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.2\(3.9\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0189 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

cisco.com / en/US/docs/security/asa/asa84/release/notes/asarn84.html
Vendor Advisory