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CVE-2010-4670
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with…
High7.8EPSS 3.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2(3) and earlier, and Cisco PIX Security Appliances devices, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package, aka Bug ID CSCti24526.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- 45760 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1024963 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- asa-pix-nd-dos(64598) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa82/release/notes/asarn82.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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