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CVE-2022-20854

A vulnerability in the processing of SSH connections of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Sof

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Summary

A vulnerability in the processing of SSH connections of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) and 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 error handling when an SSH session fails to be established. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of crafted SSH connections to the instance. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause resource exhaustion, resulting in a reboot on the affected device.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center

    Version range not reported

  • Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software

    Version range not reported

References 1

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com