CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-12698

HighCVSS 7.5
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 feature 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 a specific WebVPN HTTP page request. An attacker could send multiple WebVPN HTTP page load requests for a specific URL, leading to increased CPU load and DoS.

Risk Assessment

The risk is potential network traffic delays and service unavailability due to CPU overload.

Recommendation

Upgrade Cisco ASA and FTD software to patched versions and monitor WebVPN traffic for anomalies.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the WebVPN feature 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 a specific WebVPN HTTP page request. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple WebVPN HTTP page load requests for a specific URL. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to increase CPU load on the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition, which could cause traffic to be delayed through the device.

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