CVE-2012-4093 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a denial of service in Cisco UCS Manager by providing an invalid Smart Call Home contact address.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2012-4093?
CVE-2012-4093 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Unified Computing System, published on 20 Sep 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Manager component in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) allows local users to cause a denial of service via an invalid Smart Call Home contact address, aka Bug ID CSCtl00186.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4093?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Unified Computing System.
How do I fix CVE-2012-4093?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4093 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-2012-4093 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4093 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2012-4078 Auth bypass in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7fxx-mw6m-pmm5.