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CVE-2012-5017

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5017 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco IOS before 15.1(1)SY1, affecting various Cisco ASR 1000 series routers. An authenticated remote attacker can trigger a device reload by sending malformed IKEv2 packets after establishing a VPN session. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a high impact on availability with low attack complexity, requiring authentication. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 15.1\(1\)syCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:asr_1001:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:asr_1002:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:asr_1002-x:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0151 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 21,924 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 0.0 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