Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Device Manager
CVE-2019-1715
A vulnerability in the Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG), also known as Pseudorandom Number Generator (PRNG), used in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a cryptographic collision, enabling the attacker to discover the private key of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient entropy in the DRBG when generating cryptographic keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by generating a large number of cryptographic keys on an affected device and looking for collisions with target devices. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate an affected target device or to decrypt traffic secured by an affected key that is sent to or from an affected target device.
What this means for your business
- It affects Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Device Manager. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Device Manager, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 5.3 (v3.0)
- Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-332
- Assigned by
- psirt@cisco.com
Dates
- Published
- 2019-05-03
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Device Manager9.8 - 9.8.4, 9.9 - 9.9.2.50
- Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense6.2.1 - 6.2.3.12, 6.3.0 - 6.3.0.3
- Cisco Asa-5506-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5506h-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5506w-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5508-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5516-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5525-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5545-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa-5555-Xall versions
- Cisco Asa 5500all versions
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.