CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-3189

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.80%

76th percentile - higher than 76% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the VPN System Logging functionality for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak that depletes system memory over time, leading to unexpected behaviors or device crashes. It is due to improper memory freeing for VPN logging events when sessions are created or deleted.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could repeatedly create and delete VPN tunnels, causing gradual memory depletion and potentially a system-wide denial of service. This could disrupt device operations and impact service availability.

Recommendation

Apply Cisco updates for FTD. Consider monitoring memory usage and limiting VPN session churn to reduce exploitation risk.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the VPN System Logging functionality for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak that can deplete system memory over time, which can cause unexpected system behaviors or device crashes. The vulnerability is due to the system memory not being properly freed for a VPN System Logging event generated when a VPN session is created or deleted. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by repeatedly creating or deleting a VPN tunnel connection, which could leak a small amount of system memory for each logging event. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause system memory depletion, which can lead to a systemwide denial of service (DoS) condition. The attacker does not have any control of whether VPN System Logging is configured or not on the device, but it is enabled by default.

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