CVE-2012-4079 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect XML API by sending a malformed XML document.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2012-4079?
CVE-2012-4079 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Unified Computing System, published on 26 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The XML API service in the Fabric Interconnect component in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (API service outage) via a malformed XML document in a packet, aka Bug ID CSCtg48206.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4079?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Unified Computing System.
How do I fix CVE-2012-4079?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4079 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-2012-4079 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4079 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-p856-cv62-x4j3.