CVE-2024-20481

Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

MEDIUM 5.8CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2024-10-24

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 15.87 % · percentile 97 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) service 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) of the RAVPN service. This vulnerability is due to resource exhaustion. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of VPN authentication requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources, resulting in a DoS of the RAVPN service on the affected device. Depending on the impact of the attack, a reload of the device may be required to restore the RAVPN service. Services that are not related to VPN are not affected. Cisco Talos discussed these attacks in the blog post Large-scale brute-force activity targeting VPNs, SSH services with commonly used login credentials.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Lcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Softwareaffected 9.8.1 ; affected 9.8.1.5 ; affected 9.8.1.7 ; affected 9.8.2 ; affected 9.8.2.8 ; affected 9.8.2.14
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected 6.2.3 ; affected 6.2.3.1 ; affected 6.2.3.2 ; affected 6.2.3.3 ; affected 6.2.3.4 ; affected 6.2.3.5

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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