# CVE-2012-5415: Race condition in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service on Cisco ASA devices by triggering a race condition in hash lookups during multiple connection establishments.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2013
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cr4x-c6q2-vc47

## What is CVE-2012-5415?

CVE-2012-5415 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, published on 16 Apr 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Race condition on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or device reload) by establishing multiple connections, leading to improper handling of hash lookups for secondary flows, aka Bug IDs CSCue31622 and CSCuc71272.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5415?

It affects 3 products.


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

## How do I fix CVE-2012-5415?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5415 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-5415 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5415 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2012-5415 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-5415 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, published on 16 Apr 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5415 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-2012-5415/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5415/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5415
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5415
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5415

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5415/
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