CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-3529

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.86%

77th percentile - higher than 77% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the SSL VPN negotiation process for 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 inefficient DMA memory management during SSL VPN negotiation.

Risk Assessment

An attack could exhaust DMA memory and cause a device reload, disrupting VPN services and other functions. This can lead to network unavailability.

Recommendation

Apply vendor patches for Cisco ASA/FTD. Restrict DTLS traffic to trusted sources and monitor DMA memory usage.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the SSL VPN negotiation process for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (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 vulnerability is due to inefficient direct memory access (DMA) memory management during the negotiation phase of an SSL VPN connection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a steady stream of crafted Datagram TLS (DTLS) traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust DMA memory on the device and cause a DoS condition.

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