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CVE-2018-15388

Published: May 3, 2019

Modified: Nov 19, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

8.6

HIGH

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

affected
unspecified - < 9.4.4.34
affected
unspecified - < 9.6.4.25
affected
unspecified - < 9.8.4
affected
unspecified - < 9.9.2.50

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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