CVE-2012-0356: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices, and the ASA Services Module (ASASM) in Cisco Catalyst 6500 series devices, with software 7.0 through 7.2 before 7.2(5.7), 8.0 before 8.0(5.27), 8.1 before 8.1(2.53), 8.2 before 8.2(5.8), 8.3 before 8.3(2.25), 8.4 before 8.4(2.5), and 8.5 before 8.5(1.2) and the Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 3.1 and 3.2 before 3.2(23) and 4.0 and 4.1 before 4.1(8) in Cisco Catalyst 6500 series devices, when multicast routing is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a crafted IPv4 PIM message, aka Bug IDs CSCtr47517 and CSCtu97367.

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; …
• Cisco Catalyst 6500
• Cisco Catalyst 6503-E
• Cisco Catalyst 6504-E
• Cisco Catalyst 6506-E
• Cisco Catalyst 6509-E
• Cisco Catalyst 6509-Neb-A
• Cisco Catalyst 6509-V-E
• Cisco Catalyst 6513
• Cisco Catalyst 6513-E
• Cisco Firewall Services Module
• Cisco Firewall Services Module Software: version 3.1 only; version 3.1(2) only; version 3.1(3) only; version 3.1(4) only; version 3.1(5) only; version 3.1(6) only; …

Published 2012-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.