Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Remote Access SSL VPN Tunnel Denial of Service Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software)

CVE-2026-76418
HIGH 8.6CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2026-10-29

At a glance

Source
CVE.org
EPSS
EPSS 0.57 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to logic errors when secondary authentication is configured on a tunnel group. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request when connecting to the SSL remote access VPN. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-690 — Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

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

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Softwareaffected 9.16.1 ; affected 9.16.1.28 ; affected 9.16.2 ; affected 9.16.2.3 ; affected 9.16.2.7 ; affected 9.16.2.11
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Softwareaffected 7.0.0 ; affected 7.0.0.1 ; affected 7.0.1 ; affected 7.0.1.1 ; affected 7.0.2 ; affected 7.2.0

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