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CVE-2018-15462

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software TCP Ingress Handler Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.2.3.12, 6.3.0.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A vulnerability in the TCP ingress handler for the data interfaces that are configured with management access to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an increase in CPU and memory usage, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient ingress TCP rate limiting for TCP ports 22 (SSH) and 443 (HTTPS). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted, steady stream of TCP traffic to port 22 or 443 on the data interfaces that are configured with management access to the affected device.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software

    fixed in 6.2.3.12; fixed in 6.3.0.3

References 2

tools.cisco.com

securityfocus.com