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CVE-2012-5014

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5014 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS versions prior to 15.1(2)SY. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the device by establishing an SSH session and then placing the client into a slow or idle state. With a CVSS score of 6.3 (medium severity), this vulnerability requires authenticated access and moderate attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. 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
<= 15.1\(1\)sy3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(1\)syCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(1\)sy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(1\)sy1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(1\)sy1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1\(1\)sy2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1\(1\)sy2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0132 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 1,424 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 / c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/15-1SY/release_notes.pdf