CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4679

7.8 HIGH Published 2011-01-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-01-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly handle Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) connection failures, which allows remote OCSP responders to cause a denial of service (TCP socket exhaustion) by rejecting connection attempts, aka Bug ID CSCsz36816.

Affected configurations

• cisco adaptive security appliance software (<= 8.2\(2\)) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(0\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(2\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(4\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(5\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(5.2\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0\(6.7\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.1.4 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.4 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.4.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.5 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.6 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.7 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.0.8 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1\(2\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1\(2.5\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1\(2.27\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1\(2.48\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1\(2.49\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1\(5\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.1.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(1\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(1.22\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.5\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.7\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.8\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.10\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.14\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.15\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.16\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.17\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.18\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.19\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2\(2.48\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2.4 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 7.2.5 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.0 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.0.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.0.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.0.4 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.0.5 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.2\(1\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.2.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 8.2.2 • cisco 5500 series adaptive security appliance • cisco asa 5500

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References