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A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA 8.2.2 (Firewall Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 and 8.4, when SIP inspection is enabled, create many identical pre-allocated secondary pinholes, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted SIP traffic, aka Bug ID CSCtz63143.

The weakness was released 08/06/2012 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is available at cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2012-2472 since 05/07/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/07/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 61514 (Cisco ASA SIP CPU Utilization DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (61514). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 59197.

Productinfo

Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• ASA

Version

• 8.2.2

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.5

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 61514
Nessus Name: Cisco ASA SIP CPU Utilization DoS
Nessus File: 🔍
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

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Timelineinfo

05/07/2012 🔍
08/06/2012 +91 days 🔍
08/06/2012 +0 days 🔍
08/06/2012 +0 days 🔍
08/06/2012 +0 days 🔍
08/08/2012 +2 days 🔍
08/13/2012 +5 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +952 days 🔍
12/07/2021 +2451 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2012-2472 (🔍)
Vulnerability Center: 35822 - Cisco ASA 8.2 and 8.4 Remote DoS Vulnerability via Crafted SIP Traffic, Medium
SecurityFocus: 54836 - Cisco ASA 5500 Series SIP Traffic CVE-2012-2472 Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 12/07/2021 10:01
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (54), 04/15/2017 16:21 (11), 12/07/2021 10:01 (3)
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