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CVE-2012-5036

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5036 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco IOS before version 12.2(50)SY1, allowing remote authenticated users to exhaust memory resources through a sequence of VTY management sessions. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C), this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring authentication but having low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.2\(33\)sxi4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(33\)sxi4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2\(33\)sxi5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(33\)sxi5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2\(33\)sxi6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(33\)sxi6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2\(33\)sxi7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(33\)sxi7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2\(33\)sxjCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.2\(33\)sxj:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0107 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 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/12-2SY/release/notes/ol_20679.html