CVE-2012-4658 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Cisco IOS webauth and HTTP services by triggering incorrectly terminated HTTP sessions.
- 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-2012-4658?
CVE-2012-4658 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Ios, published on 23 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The ios-authproxy implementation in Cisco IOS before 15.1(1)SY3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (webauth and HTTP service outage) via vectors that trigger incorrectly terminated HTTP sessions, aka Bug ID CSCtz99447.
Weakness: CWE-287
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4658?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Ios.
How do I fix CVE-2012-4658?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4658 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-2012-4658 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4658 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-mw4g-r9w4-rcr5.