CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-3298

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.92%

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

Summary

A vulnerability in the OSPF implementation of Cisco ASA and FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The issue is due to improper memory protection mechanisms while processing certain OSPF packets.

Risk Assessment

An attack could cause a device reload, disrupting client traffic traversing the device. This can lead to network and service unavailability.

Recommendation

Install Cisco ASA/FTD software updates. Restrict OSPF access to trusted sources and monitor devices for unexpected reloads.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) implementation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the reload of an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper memory protection mechanisms while processing certain OSPF packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malformed OSPF packets in a short period of time to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of the affected device, resulting in a DoS condition for client traffic that is traversing the device.

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