High severity · published Oct 21, 2020
CVE-2020-3572
A vulnerability in the SSL/TLS session handler of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an…
8.6
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in the SSL/TLS session handler 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 leak when closing SSL/TLS connections in a specific state. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing several SSL/TLS sessions and ensuring they are closed under certain conditions. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust memory resources in the affected device, which would prevent it from processing new SSL/TLS connections, resulting in a DoS. Manual intervention is required to recover an affected device.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
Adaptive Security Appliance · Cisco
before 9.6 · source: NVD
AS
Adaptive Security Appliance Software · Cisco
9.8.0 before 9.8.4.26; 9.9.0 before 9.9.2.80; 9.10.0 before 9.10.1.44; 9.12.0 before 9.12.4.4; 9.13.0 before 9.13.1.13; 9.14.0 before 9.14.1.19 · source: NVD
SF
Secure Firewall Threat Defense · Cisco
before 6.3.0.6; 6.4.0 before 6.4.0.10; 6.5.0 before 6.6.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3572
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-3572
Vendor Advisory
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asa-ftd-tcp-dos-N3DMnU4T
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