CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-20767

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.61%

74th percentile - higher than 74% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the Snort rule evaluation function of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. It is due to improper handling of the DNS reputation enforcement rule. An attacker could exploit this by sending crafted UDP packets through the device to force a buildup of UDP connections. This only affects FTD devices running Snort 3.

Risk Assessment

The exploit could cause traffic passing through the device to be dropped, resulting in a DoS condition. This could disrupt network traffic flow and service availability.

Recommendation

Apply Cisco updates for FTD. Monitor UDP traffic and consider restrictions to reduce exploitation risk.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the Snort rule evaluation function of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of the DNS reputation enforcement rule. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted UDP packets through an affected device to force a buildup of UDP connections. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause traffic that is going through the affected device to be dropped, resulting in a DoS condition. Note: This vulnerability only affects Cisco FTD devices that are running Snort 3.

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