8.6highHigh

CVE-2020-3373

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense

A vulnerability in the IP fragment-handling implementation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak on an affected device. This memory leak could prevent traffic from being processed through the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling when specific failures occur during IP fragment reassembly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted, fragmented IP traffic to a targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to continuously consume memory on the affected device and eventually impact traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. The device could require a manual reboot to recover from the DoS condition. Note: This vulnerability applies to both IP Version 4 (IPv4) and IP Version 6 (IPv6) traffic.

Exploitation status

  • A vendor advisory or patch reference has been published.

What the metrics mean

  • It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
  • For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
  • To exploit it, no account is needed.
  • Beyond that, no action by a user is required.

Scoring

CVSS
8.6 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Assigned by
psirt@cisco.com

Dates

Published
2020-10-21
Last modified
2026-08-11
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense6.6.0.1
  • Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software9.8.4.22, 9.8.4.25, 9.12.4.2, 9.12.4.3, 9.13.1.12, 9.14.1.15

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

References