CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-3533

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.76%

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

Summary

A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) input packet processor of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart unexpectedly. It is due to a lack of sufficient memory management protections under heavy SNMP polling loads. An attacker could exploit this by sending a high rate of SNMP requests to the SNMP daemon through the management interface.

Risk Assessment

The exploit could cause the SNMP daemon to consume a large amount of system memory, leading to an unexpected device restart and a DoS condition. This could disrupt device operations and service availability.

Recommendation

Apply Cisco updates for FTD. Restrict management interface access and monitor SNMP load to reduce exploitation risk.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) input packet processor of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart unexpectedly. The vulnerability is due to a lack of sufficient memory management protections under heavy SNMP polling loads. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of SNMP requests to the SNMP daemon through the management interface on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the SNMP daemon process to consume a large amount of system memory over time, which could then lead to an unexpected device restart, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability affects all versions of SNMP.

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