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CVE-2014-7992

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7992 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the DLSw implementation of Cisco IOS. Due to uninitialized packet buffers, remote attackers can extract sensitive credential information from process memory by establishing a session on TCP port 2067. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for remote exploitation with low attack complexity, leading to confidentiality impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for scanning, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
27.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Cisco DLSw Information Disclosure Scanner · Nov 17, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2715 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/98724
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-7992
Vendor Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/viewAlert.x
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/71145
securitytracker.com / id/1031220