CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-20746

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.29%

68th percentile - higher than 68% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the TCP proxy functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition. This is due to improper handling of TCP flows. An attacker could exploit this by sending a crafted stream of TCP traffic, causing the device to reload.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that an attacker could disrupt the FTD device, potentially impacting network traffic and service availability.

Recommendation

Apply the vendor-provided software update and monitor vendor advisories.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the TCP proxy functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of TCP flows. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted stream of TCP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

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