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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2012-5017

Severity Medium
Score 6.8/10

Summary

Cisco IOS before 15.1(1)SY1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device reload) by establishing a VPN session and then sending malformed IKEv2 packets, aka Bug ID CSCub39268.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published