CVE-2017-12234

CRITICALNVD 7.59.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.5 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 7.1%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017 — use a compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and check the vendor's advisory.

The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (Cisco Systems, Inc.), states the affected versions: "Multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) feature in Cisco IOS 12.4 through 15.6 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, result…" No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

Multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) feature in Cisco IOS 12.4 through 15.6 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are due to the improper parsing of crafted CIP packets destined to an affected device. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending crafted CIP packets to be processed by an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc43709.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
89
EG Risk 89/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high, and check the vendor's advisory for a fix.
EPSS PROB
7.1%
EPSS %ILE
94th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.5 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
7.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactAttend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high, and check the vendor's advisory for a fix.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12234

Published

September 29, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). No fix on record since 2017. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-12234
Web page

Cisco IOS Software Common Industrial Protocol Request Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170927-cip
Web page

CVE-2017-12233 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101038

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 180× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,118 refreshes on record for this CVE.

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  3. 2026-10-23 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  4. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 7.1% · 94th percentile
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  6. 2026-10-22 00:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  7. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 7.1% · 94th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-20 22:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  15. 2026-10-18 19:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  19. 2026-10-17 17:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  1. 2026-10-15 13:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  4. 2026-10-14 11:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  18. 2026-10-11 11:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  22. 2026-10-10 23:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  24. 2026-10-10 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-89f3-gxqw-p6pq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2017-12234?
CVE-2017-12234 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 29, 2017. Multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) feature in Cisco IOS 12.4 through 15.6 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are due to the…
When was CVE-2017-12234 made public?
CVE-2017-12234 was made public on September 28, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Cisco Systems, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 29, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-12234 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2017-12234 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, affecting Cisco IOS software. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation, and check the vendor's advisory for a fix.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-12234?
CVE-2017-12234 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2017-12234?
CVE-2017-12234 affects Cisco IOS software.
How do I remediate CVE-2017-12234?
No fix for CVE-2017-12234 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2017. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and check the vendor's advisory for a fix. The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (Cisco Systems, Inc.), states the affected versions: "Multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) feature in Cisco IOS 12.4 through 15.6 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, result…" No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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