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CVE-2017-12279

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

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

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0061 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 1,802 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171101-iosap
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101643
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039720
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry