CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-20154

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.40%

34th percentile - higher than 34% of all known CVEs

Summary

Vulnerability in the system rate-limiting process for syslog message 419002 of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Software allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization, resulting in a DoS condition. This is due to improper rate limiting for syslog message 419002.

Risk Assessment

The attack can cause high CPU utilization, leading to performance degradation and potentially affecting traffic processing and service availability.

Recommendation

Apply the software update from Cisco that fixes this vulnerability and implement protections against SYN packet floods.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the system rate-limiting process for syslog message 419002 of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper rate limiting for syslog message 419002. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a flood of TCP synchronization (SYN) packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause high CPU utilization, resulting in performance degradation. 

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