CVE-2018-15388 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption4 documents4 sources
Severity
8.6HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 36.96%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SoftwareCisco Adaptive Security Appliance SoftwareCisco Firepower Threat Defense
Timeline
PublishedMay 3
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A vulnerability in the WebVPN login process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause increased CPU utilization on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to excessive processing load for existing WebVPN login operations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple WebVPN login requests to the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to incre…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5cisco/cisco_adaptive_security_appliance_softwareunspecified — 9.4.4.34+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-xmrh-pf7v-rvpg: A vulnerability in the WebVPN login process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software coul↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability↗2019-05-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Cisco
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability↗2019-05-01
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