CVE-2025-20244
Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Remote Access VPN Web Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.7 High
- Published
- Aug 14, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 14, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2024
Description
A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service for Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow a remote attacker that is authenticated as a VPN user to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when parsing an HTTP header field value. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to a targeted Remote Access SSL VPN service on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition, which would cause the affected device to reload.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.7 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | cisco |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareCisco |
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Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco |
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References
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