CVE-2022-20757 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
CNA8.6
EPSS
1.2%
top 20.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 3
Latest updateMay 4
Description
A vulnerability in the connection handling function in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper traffic handling when platform limits are reached. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of UDP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause all new, incoming connection…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6