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CVE-2025-20135

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

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A vulnerability in the DHCP client functionality of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to exhaust available memory. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of incoming DHCP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by repeatedly sending crafted DHCPv4 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust available memory, which would affect availability of services and prevent new processes from starting, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition that would require a manual reboot. Note: On Cisco Secure FTD Software, this vulnerability does not affect management interfaces.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

    9.12.3, 9.8.3, 9.12.1, 9.8.1, 9.12.2, 9.8.2.45, 9.8.2, 9.8.4, 9.14.1, 9.12.4, 9.8.2.26, 9.8.2.24, 9.8.2.15, 9.8.2.14, 9.8.2.35, 9.8.2.20, 9.8.2.8, 9.8.2.17, 9.8.2.28, 9.8.2.33, 9.8.2.38, 9.8.4.25, 9.12.3.2, 9.12.3.7, 9.8.3.18, 9.8.3.14, 9.8.4.15, 9.8.4.8, 9.8.1.7, 9.8.3.29, and 179 more

  • Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software

    6.2.3.14, 6.4.0.1, 6.2.3.7, 6.2.3, 6.4.0.2, 6.2.3.9, 6.2.3.1, 6.2.3.2, 6.4.0.5, 6.2.3.10, 6.4.0, 6.4.0.3, 6.2.3.6, 6.4.0.4, 6.2.3.15, 6.2.3.5, 6.2.3.4, 6.2.3.3, 6.2.3.8, 6.4.0.6, 6.2.3.11, 6.2.3.12, 6.2.3.13, 6.4.0.7, 6.4.0.8, 6.6.0, 6.4.0.9, 6.2.3.16, 6.6.0.1, 6.6.1, and 61 more

References 1

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com