CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-15388

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.97%

79th percentile - higher than 79% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the WebVPN login process of Cisco ASA and FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause increased CPU utilization on an affected device. The issue is due to excessive processing load for existing WebVPN login operations. An attacker could send multiple WebVPN login requests, leading to increased CPU load and DoS.

Risk Assessment

The risk is potential denial of service due to CPU overload, disrupting service availability.

Recommendation

Upgrade Cisco ASA and FTD software to patched versions and limit the number of login requests.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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