CVE-2011-2060: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The platform-sw component on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 before 8.2(5.3), 8.3 before 8.3(2.20), and 8.4 before 8.4(2.1) does not properly handle non-ASCII characters in an interface description, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reload without configuration) via a crafted description, aka Bug ID CSCtq50523.

Affected products

• Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software: version 7.0 only; version 7.0(0) only; version 7.0(1) only; version 7.0(2) only; version 7.0(4) only; version 7.0(5) only; …

Published 2011-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.