MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2009-0629

Ios vulnerability

CVSS
5.4
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
The (1) Airline Product Set (aka ALPS), (2) Serial Tunnel Code (aka STUN), (3) Block Serial Tunnel Code (aka BSTUN), (4) Native Client Interface Architecture (NCIA) support, (5) Data-link switching (aka DLSw), (6) Remote Source-Route Bridging (RSRB), (7) Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), (8) X.25 for Record Boundary Preservation (RBP), (9) X.25 over TCP (XOT), and (10) X.25 Routing features in Cisco IOS 12.2 and 12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a series of crafted TCP packets.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Ios
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2009-03-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Cisco Ios is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-0629.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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