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CVE-2025-20224

Published: Aug 14, 2025

Modified: Aug 14, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.8

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) module of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a memory leak, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper parsing of IKEv2 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a continuous stream of crafted IKEv2 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to partially exhaust system memory, causing system instability like being unable to establish new IKEv2 VPN sessions. A manual reboot of the device is required to recover from this condition.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

affected
9.8.1
affected
9.8.1.5
affected
9.8.1.7
affected
9.8.2
affected
9.8.2.8

+215 more versions

Cisco

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software

affected
6.2.3
affected
6.2.3.1
affected
6.2.3.2
affected
6.2.3.3
affected
6.2.3.4

+89 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

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