# CVE-2011-2060: Denial of service in n/a

> Local users can cause a denial of service on Cisco ASA devices by setting a crafted interface description with non-ASCII characters.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Oct 2011
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-98f6-wwrg-769f

## What is CVE-2011-2060?

CVE-2011-2060 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, published on 22 Oct 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The platform-sw component on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 before 8.2(5.3), 8.3 before 8.3(2.20), and 8.4 before 8.4(2.1) does not properly handle non-ASCII characters in an interface description, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reload without configuration) via a crafted description, aka Bug ID CSCtq50523.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2060?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software.

## How do I fix CVE-2011-2060?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-2060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2011-2060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

- [CVE-2012-0358](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0358/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2012-4661](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4661/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2010-4675](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4675/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2010-4680](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4680/): Security feature bypass in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2011-3298](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-3298/): Auth bypass in n/a (high 7.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2011-2060 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2011-2060 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, published on 22 Oct 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-2060/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-2060/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2060
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2060
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-2060

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-2060/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.