Vulnerability · Published May 6, 2020 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2020-3255Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Packet Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability in the packet processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient memory management. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of IPv4 or IPv6 traffic through an affected device. This traffic would need to match a configured block action in an access control policy. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a memory exhaustion condition on the affected device, which would result in a DoS for traffic transiting the device, as well as sluggish performance of the management interface. Once the flood is stopped, performance should return to previous states.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software | n/a |
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- 20200506 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Packet Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO