CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-0230

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.84%

77th percentile - higher than 77% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the internal packet-processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Firepower 2100 Series could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to stop processing traffic, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The issue is due to improper validation of IPv4 and IPv6 packets after reassembly.

Risk Assessment

An attack could cause Snort processes to hang at 100% CPU, stopping traffic processing and requiring manual reload. This can lead to prolonged network outages.

Recommendation

Update FTD software to version 6.2.3 or later if using Firepower 2100. Restrict traffic from unknown sources and monitor CPU usage.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the internal packet-processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop processing traffic, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to the affected software improperly validating IP Version 4 (IPv4) and IP Version 6 (IPv6) packets after the software reassembles the packets (following IP Fragmentation). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious, fragmented IPv4 or IPv6 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause Snort processes on the affected device to hang at 100% CPU utilization, which could cause the device to stop processing traffic and result in a DoS condition until the device is reloaded manually. This vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software Releases 6.2.1 and 6.2.2, if the software is running on a Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliance. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf91098.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS