Buffer overflow in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

CVE-2012-4661

Stack-based buffer overflow in the DCERPC inspection engine on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices, and the ASA Services Module (ASASM) in Cisco Catalyst 6500 series devices, with software 8.3 before 8.3(2.34), 8.4 before 8.4(4.4), 8.5 before 8.5(1.13), and 8.6 before 8.6(1.3) and the Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 4.1 before 4.1(9) in Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches and 7600 series routers might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DCERPC packet, aka Bug IDs CSCtr21359 and CSCtr27522.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.040 (90.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-4661: held from 0.040 to 0.040.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.040 · newest: 0.040 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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