CVE-2020-3563 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software TCP Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability

2020-10-2118:41:03

CWE-400

cisco

www.cve.org

cisco

firepower

threat defense

tcp flood

dos

vulnerability

unauthenticated

remote

attacker

denial of service

memory management

tcp packets

system memory

device reload

CVSS3

8.6

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

AI Score

8.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

52.7%

JSON

A vulnerability in the packet processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient memory management. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of TCP packets to a specific port on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust system memory, which could cause the device to reload unexpectedly. No manual intervention is needed to recover the device after it has reloaded.

CNA Affected

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    "vendor": "Cisco",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "n/a"
      }
    ]
  }
]