CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-1669

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.25%

67th percentile - higher than 67% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the data acquisition (DAQ) component of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured access control policies or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. This is due to improper management of system memory during traffic inspection. An attacker could exploit this by generating specific traffic patterns, potentially exhausting memory and causing fail-open or fail-closed behavior.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential security policy bypass or disruption of the FTD device, possibly requiring manual intervention and impacting network security.

Recommendation

Apply the vendor-provided software update and monitor device memory usage.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the data acquisition (DAQ) component of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured access control policies or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability exists because the affected software improperly manages system memory resources when inspecting traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by generating specific traffic patterns for the software to inspect. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust system memory resources used for traffic inspection. Depending on the configuration, the FTD Software could fail open and cease to inspect traffic or fail closed and result in a DoS condition. This vulnerability may require manual intervention to restore the software.

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