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CVE-2012-0368· NVD / CVE Program· CNA cisco

The administrative management interface on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices with software 4.x, 5.x, 6.0, and 7.0 before 7.0.220.0

The administrative management interface on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices with software 4.x, 5.x, 6.0, and 7.0 before 7.0.220.0, 7.1 before 7.1.91.0, and 7.2 before 7.2.103.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash) via a malformed URL in an HTTP request, aka Bug ID CSCts81997.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Feb 29, 2012
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.3% · 70th percentile
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Action score

31

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CVSS
31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.3%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
ciscowireless lan controller software
cisco2000 wireless lan controller
cisco2100 wireless lan controller
cisco2106 wireless lan controller
cisco2112 wireless lan controller
cisco2125 wireless lan controller
cisco2500 wireless lan controller
cisco2504 wireless lan controller
cisco4100 wireless lan controller
cisco4400 wireless lan controller
cisco4402 wireless lan controller
cisco4404 wireless lan controller

and 1 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • cisco 2000 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 2100 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 2106 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 2112 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 2125 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 2500 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 2504 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 4100 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 4400 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 4402 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 4404 wireless lan controllerall versions
  • cisco 5508 wireless controllerall versions
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.108
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.155.0
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.155.5
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.179.11
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.179.8
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.196
  • cisco wireless lan controller software4.0.206.0

Same product

cisco: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2016-1363Buffer overflow in the redirection functionality in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Software 7.2 through 7.4 before 7.4.140.0(MD) and 7.
    41Plan
  • CVE-2014-0703Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices 7.4 before 7.4.110.0 distribute Aironet IOS software with a race condition in the status of the
    41Plan
  • CVE-2007-2036The SNMP implementation in the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) before 20070419 uses the default read-only community public, and the defa
    41Plan
  • CVE-2019-15276Cisco Wireless LAN Controller HTTP Parsing Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability
    40Plan
  • CVE-2015-6314Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices with software 7.6.x, 8.0 before 8.0.121.0, and 8.1 before 8.1.131.0 allow remote attackers to ch
    40Plan
  • CVE-2012-0371Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices with software 4.x, 5.x, 6.0, and 7.0 before 7.0.220.4, when CPU-based ACLs are enabled, allow re
    38Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
C · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
C

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-399 · Resource Management Errors

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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