CVE-2013-5499

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The remember feature in the DHCP server in Cisco IOS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) by acquiring a lease and then sending a DHCPRELEASE message, aka Bug ID CSCuh46822.

Affected products

Cisco IOS: all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5499
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5499

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