CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-15256

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 IKEv1 feature of Cisco ASA and FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of an affected device, resulting in a DoS condition. The issue is due to improper management of system memory. An attacker could send malicious IKEv1 traffic without valid credentials, leading to memory exhaustion and device reload.

Risk Assessment

The risk is potential denial of service, disrupting network and service availability.

Recommendation

Upgrade Cisco ASA and FTD software to patched versions and restrict access to devices from trusted sources.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper management of system memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious IKEv1 traffic to an affected device. The attacker does not need valid credentials to authenticate the VPN session, nor does the attacker's source address need to match a peer statement in the crypto map applied to the ingress interface of the affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust system memory resources, leading to a reload of an affected device.

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