CVE-2012-0335: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 7.2 through 8.4 do not properly perform proxy authentication during attempts to cut through a firewall, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a connection attempt, aka Bug ID CSCtx42746.

Affected products

• Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software: version 7.2 only; version 7.2(1) only; version 7.2(1.22) only; version 7.2(2) only; version 7.2(2.5) only; version 7.2(2.7) only; …

Published 2012-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.