CVE-2018-15388CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2018-15388

High · published May 3, 2019

CVSS v3.0
8.6
EPSS
2%
Percentile
80.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the WebVPN login process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause increased CPU utilization on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to excessive processing load for existing WebVPN login operations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple WebVPN login requests to the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to increase CPU load on the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.6 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01983 · 80.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2019-05-03T19:29Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software< 9.4.4.349.4.4.34
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software≥ 9.5, < 9.6.4.259.6.4.25
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software≥ 9.7, < 9.8.49.8.4
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software≥ 9.9, < 9.9.2.509.9.2.50
cisco/secure_firewall_threat_defense< 6.2.3.126.2.3.12
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAY 14:30Z
    Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability
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