CVE-2011-4022

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2011-4022 · Published 03/05/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-4022 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting intrusion prevention system (cisco).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 71.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
intrusion prevention system cisco	`= 7.0= 7.1`	No fix yet

Description

The sensor in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) 7.0 and 7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-handle exhaustion and mainApp hang) by making authentication attempts that exceed the configured limit, aka Bug ID CSCto51204.

References

cisco.com/web/software/282549709/56954/IPS-7-1-3-E4_readme.txt

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