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CVE-2012-2488

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-05-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Cisco IOS XR before 4.2.1 on ASR 9000 series devices and CRS series devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet transmission outage) via a crafted packet, aka Bug IDs CSCty94537 and CSCtz62593.

Affected products

• Cisco Asr 9000 Rsp440 Router: all versions
• Cisco Crs Performance Route Processor: all versions
• Cisco IOS XR Software: through 4.2.0; 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/49329
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120530-iosxr
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53728
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027104
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49329
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120530-iosxr
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53728
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027104

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