CVE-2012-5717

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices with firmware 8.x through 8.4(1) do not properly manage SSH sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device crash) by establishing multiple sessions, aka Bug ID CSCtc59462.

Affected products

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance: all versions
Cisco ASA Software: 8.0, 8.0(2), 8.0(3), 8.0(4), 8.0(5), 8.0.2 (+24)
Cisco Asa 1000V Cloud Firewall: all versions
Cisco Asa 5500: all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-5717
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-5717

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