CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3788

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2005-11-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-11-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.0(0), 7.0(2), and 7.0(4), when running with an Active/Standby configuration and when the failover LAN interface fails, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (standby firewall failure) by sending spoofed ARP responses from an IP address of an active firewall, which prevents the standby firewall from becoming active, aka "failover denial of service."

Affected configurations

• cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(0\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(2\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(4\)

References