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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-5415

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…

MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 0.80%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.80%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
0.80% probability · 56th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-362
Affected
cisco/5500 adaptive security appliance · cisco/5500 series adaptive security appliance · cisco/adaptive security appliance
Source
psirt@cisco.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.80%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.