CVE-2012-3051: Cisco Nexus 7000

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco NX-OS 5.2 and 6.1 on Nexus 7000 series switches allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash or packet loss) via a large number of ARP packets, aka Bug ID CSCtr44822.

Affected products

• Cisco Nexus 7000
• Cisco Nexus 7000 10-Slot
• Cisco Nexus 7000 18-Slot
• Cisco Nexus 7000 9-Slot
• Cisco NX-OS: version 5.2 only; version 6.1 only

Published 2012-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.