CVE-2012-4091 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4091?

CVE-2012-4091 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Nx-Os, published on 5 Oct 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The RIP service engine in Cisco NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine restart) via a malformed (1) RIPv4 or (2) RIPv6 message, aka Bug ID CSCtj73415.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4091?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nx-Os.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4091?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4091 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-2012-4091 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4091 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4mfj-8rv9-j9f2.