CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-3179

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.94%

78th percentile - higher than 78% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the GRE tunnel decapsulation feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a DoS condition. The issue is due to a memory handling error when GRE over IPv6 traffic is processed. An attacker could send crafted GRE over IPv6 packets with IPv4 or IPv6 payload, causing device crash.

Risk Assessment

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

Recommendation

Upgrade 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 generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a memory handling error when GRE over IPv6 traffic is processed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted GRE over IPv6 packets with either IPv4 or IPv6 payload through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to crash, resulting in a DoS condition.

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