CVE-2009-4916 Denial of service in n/a
Remote authenticated users can cause a console hang on Cisco ASA devices during failover replication, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-4916?
CVE-2009-4916 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Jun 2010. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5580 series devices with software before 8.1(2) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (console hang) via a login action during failover replication, aka Bug ID CSCsq80095.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4916?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Asa 5580.
How do I fix CVE-2009-4916?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4916 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2009-4916 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-4916 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-75vf-wx48-2r29.