CVE-2017-12279 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Cisco Aironet Access Points running Cisco IOS Software. It stems from insufficient condition checks during packet padding, allowing an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to retrieve memory content by sending a crafted IP packet. The CVSS score is 4.3 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), indicating a low-complexity attack with local network access leading to confidential information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_ap_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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