CVE-2012-5415: Cisco 5500 Adaptive Security Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Cisco 5500 Adaptive Security Appliance: version 7.2 only
• Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance: any version; version 7.2 only
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance: any version

Published 2013-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.