Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software for Firepower 3100 and 4200 Series DTLS Denial of Service Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software)

CVE-2026-20250
HIGH 8.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.57 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in Datagram TLS (DTLS) message handling of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Series and 4200 Series devices could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper resource management when processing certain DTLS messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted stream of DTLS traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Weaknesses (CWE)

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

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Softwareaffected 9.23.1 ; affected 9.22.1.1 ; affected 9.22.1.3 ; affected 9.22.1.6 ; affected 9.22.2 ; affected 9.23.1.3
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Softwareaffected 7.6.0 ; affected 7.7.0 ; affected 7.6.1 ; affected 7.6.2 ; affected 7.7.10 ; affected 7.7.11

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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