CVE-2018-15454 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Denial of Service Vulnerability

2018-10-3100:00:00

CWE-20

cisco

www.cve.org

8.6 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

8.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.047 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.7%

JSON

A vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload or trigger high CPU, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of SIP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending SIP requests designed to specifically trigger this issue at a high rate across an affected device. Software updates that address this vulnerability are not yet available.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software ",
    "vendor": "Cisco",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "9.4"
      }
    ]
  }
]