CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-20244

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.77%

53th percentile - higher than 53% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the internal packet processing of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Firepower 2100 Series Firewalls could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS). This is due to improper handling of certain packets sent to the inspection engine. An attacker could exploit this by sending a series of crafted packets, depleting all 9,472 byte blocks and causing traffic loss or unexpected reload.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that a remote attacker can cause complete traffic disruption, potentially leading to network unavailability and requiring manual intervention.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FTD software to a patched version and monitor devices for unusual traffic patterns.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the internal packet processing of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Firewalls could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of certain packets when they are sent to the inspection engine. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of crafted packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to deplete all 9,472 byte blocks on the device, resulting in traffic loss across the device or an unexpected reload of the device. If the device does not reload on its own, a manual reload of the device would be required to recover from this state.

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