CVE-2012-5415 — Race condition on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or device reload) by establishing multiple connections, leading to improper handling of hash lookups for secondary flows, aka Bug IDs CSCue31622 and CSCuc71272

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Race condition on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or device reload) by establishing multiple connections, leading to improper handling of hash lookups for secondary flows, aka Bug IDs CSCue31622 and CSCuc71272

Published Apr 16, 2013

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.80%

Description

Race condition on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or device reload) by establishing multiple connections, leading to improper handling of hash lookups for secondary flows, aka Bug IDs CSCue31622 and CSCuc71272.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.80% 0.00803

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00803

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (13 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.80% (0.00803)	55.11th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.80% (0.00803)	51.73th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.33% (0.00330)	53.80th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00161)	54.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.14% (0.00137)	48.64th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.13% (0.00127)	46.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.11% (0.00115)	43.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 2, 2023	0.17% (0.00165)	53.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00187)	54.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (1)

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-5415
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-5415		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner cisco

Published Apr 16, 2013

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Oct 17, 2012

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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