Multiple Cisco Products Snort Application Detection Engine Policy Bypass Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software)

CVE-2021-1236
MEDIUM 4.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 2.19 % · percentile 82 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort application detection engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured policies on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to a flaw in the detection algorithm. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted packets that would flow through an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the configured policies and deliver a malicious payload to the protected network.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-670 — Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD