6.8mediumMedium

CVE-2020-3555

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance

A vulnerability in the SIP inspection process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash and reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a watchdog timeout and crash during the cleanup of threads that are associated with a SIP connection that is being deleted from the connection list. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of crafted SIP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a watchdog timeout and crash, resulting in a crash and reload of the affected device.

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, exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control.
  • To exploit it, no account is needed.
  • Beyond that, no action by a user is required.

Scoring

CVSS
6.8 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-404
Assigned by
psirt@cisco.com

Dates

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

Affected products

  • Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance- 9.6.4.43
  • Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense- 6.2.2, 6.3.0 - 6.3.0.6, 6.4.0 - 6.4.0.10, 6.5.0 - 6.5.0.5, 6.6.0
  • Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software9.7.0 - 9.8.4.24, 9.9.0 - 9.9.2.80, 9.10.0 - 9.10.1.43, 9.12.0 - 9.12.4.2, 9.13.0 - 9.13.1.13, 9.14.0 - 9.14.1.19

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

References