Coverage › CVE-2017-12238
CVE-2017-12238 Unmapped
Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches VPLS Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Cisco — Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
- Description (CISA)
- A vulnerability in the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) code of Cisco IOS for Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-03-03
- Due date
- 2022-03-24
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-399
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12238
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2017-12238. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-399) — here is why — and does not guess.
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