CVE-2020-3554

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Denial of Service Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
Oct 21, 2020
Updated
Nov 13, 2024
Reserved
Dec 12, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the TCP packet processing of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a memory exhaustion condition. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of crafted TCP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust device resources, resulting in a DoS condition for traffic transiting the affected device.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.08.6 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareCisco
  • n/aAffected

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