CVE-2013-1219 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.4 Published Updated

Local users can cause a denial of service in Cisco IPS by triggering specific application actions, leading to application hangs.

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-2013-1219?

CVE-2013-1219 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Apr 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SensorApp in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) allows local users to cause a denial of service (Regex hardware job failure and application hang) via a (1) initiate signature upgrade, (2) initiate global correlation, (3) show statistics anomaly-detection, or (4) clear database action, aka Bug ID CSCuc74630.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1219?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Intrusion Prevention System.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1219?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1219 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-2013-1219 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1219 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-gjfg-6v77-jvh3.

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