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CVE-2012-4662

22
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.1HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

osvdb.org / 86147
secunia.com / advisories/50857
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79174
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20121010-asa
Vendor Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20121010-fwsm
securityfocus.com / bid/55862