CVE-2021-1573

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

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
Jan 11, 2022
Updated
Nov 6, 2024
Reserved
Nov 13, 2020

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Description

A vulnerability in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation when parsing HTTPS requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTPS request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.6 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SoftwareCisco
  • before 6.4.0.13Affected
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco
  • before 6.6.5Affected

References

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