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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.6 High

CVE-2018-15388

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
cisco

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 increase CPU load on the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

  • unspecified to < 9.4.4.34affected
  • unspecified to < 9.6.4.25affected
  • unspecified to < 9.8.4affected
  • unspecified to < 9.9.2.50affected

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