CVE-2017-12273 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco Aironet 1560, 2800, and 3800 Series Access Points running Lightweight AP Software or Mobility Express. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can exploit insufficient validation of 802.11 association request frames by sending a malformed request, causing the Access Point to reload. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and high impact on availability, requiring only adjacent network access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_1562_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_2800_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_3800_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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