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

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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

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareCisco
  • 9.12.3Affected
  • 9.8.3Affected
  • 9.12.1Affected
  • 9.8.1Affected
  • 9.12.2Affected
  • 9.8.2.45Affected
  • 9.8.2Affected
  • 9.8.4Affected
  • 9.14.1Affected
  • 9.12.4Affected
  • 9.8.2.26Affected
  • 9.8.2.24Affected
  • 9.8.2.15Affected
  • 9.8.2.14Affected
  • 9.8.2.35Affected
  • 9.8.2.20Affected
  • 9.8.2.8Affected
  • 9.8.2.17Affected
  • 9.8.2.28Affected
  • 9.8.2.33Affected
  • 9.8.2.38Affected
  • 9.8.4.25Affected
  • 9.12.3.2Affected
  • 9.12.3.7Affected
  • 9.8.3.18Affected
  • and 180 more versions
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco
  • 6.2.3.14Affected
  • 6.4.0.1Affected
  • 6.2.3.7Affected
  • 6.2.3Affected
  • 6.4.0.2Affected
  • 6.2.3.9Affected
  • 6.2.3.1Affected
  • 6.2.3.2Affected
  • 6.4.0.5Affected
  • 6.2.3.10Affected
  • 6.4.0Affected
  • 6.4.0.3Affected
  • 6.2.3.6Affected
  • 6.4.0.4Affected
  • 6.2.3.15Affected
  • 6.2.3.5Affected
  • 6.2.3.4Affected
  • 6.2.3.3Affected
  • 6.2.3.8Affected
  • 6.4.0.6Affected
  • 6.2.3.11Affected
  • 6.2.3.12Affected
  • 6.2.3.13Affected
  • 6.4.0.7Affected
  • 6.4.0.8Affected
  • and 68 more versions

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