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CVE-2012-5030

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Cisco IOS before 15.2(4)S6 does not initialize an unspecified variable, which might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, watchdog timeout, crash) by walking specific SNMP objects.

Affected products

• Cisco IOS: through 15.2\(4\)s5

References

• https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/15_2s/release/notes/15_2s_rel_notes/15_2s_caveats_15_2_4s.html
• https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/15_2s/release/notes/15_2s_rel_notes/15_2s_caveats_15_2_4s.html

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