CVE-2019-1981

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software NULL Character Obfuscation Detection Bypass Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
5.8 Medium
Published
Nov 5, 2019
Updated
Nov 19, 2024
Reserved
Dec 6, 2018

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Description

A vulnerability in the normalization functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software, Cisco FirePOWER Services Software for ASA, and Cisco Firepower Management Center Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass filtering protections. The vulnerability is due to insufficient normalization of a text-based payload. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic that contains specifically obfuscated payloads through an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to bypass filtering and deliver malicious payloads to protected systems that would otherwise be blocked.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.05.8 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco
  • before n/aAffected

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