CVE-2017-12293

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12293 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco WebEx Meetings Server. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit insufficient connection limits by opening numerous connections, exhausting server resources and causing a reload. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.6, indicating a severe impact with no user interaction required. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		2.7CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:cisco:webex_meetings_server:2.7:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

4.0

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.30%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

81.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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-20171018-wms

Vendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/101492

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1039618

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry