CVE-2013-5497: Cisco Intrusion Prevention System

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The authentication manager process in the web framework in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) does not properly handle user tokens, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (intermittent MainApp hang) via a crafted management-interface connection request, aka Bug ID CSCuf20148.

Affected products

• Cisco Intrusion Prevention System: any version

Published 2013-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.