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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-2474

Medium
4/10

Summary

Memory leak on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 through 8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and blank response page) by using the clientless WebVPN feature, aka Bug ID CSCth34278.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published