CVE-2012-4662 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco ASA 5500 series devices, ASASM, and FWSM running specific software versions. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a device reload by sending a specially crafted DCERPC packet, exploiting a flaw in the DCERPC inspection engine. With a CVSS score of 7.1, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its potential to cause a complete system outage, though it requires medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.3\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.3\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.3\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.3\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.4\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.4\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.4\(1.11\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:8.4\(1.11\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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