VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-0638

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability2.85%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-08-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 2.x, 3.1 before 3.1(16), 3.2 before 3.2(13), and 4.0 before 4.0(6) for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches and Cisco 7600 routers allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic-handling outage) via a series of malformed ICMP messages.

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