CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-0230

8.6 HIGH Published 2018-04-19 Modified 2026-08-11 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-19
Last modified
2026-08-11
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

A vulnerability in the internal packet-processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop processing traffic, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to the affected software improperly validating IP Version 4 (IPv4) and IP Version 6 (IPv6) packets after the software reassembles the packets (following IP Fragmentation). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of malicious, fragmented IPv4 or IPv6 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause Snort processes on the affected device to hang at 100% CPU utilization, which could cause the device to stop processing traffic and result in a DoS condition until the device is reloaded manually. This vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software Releases 6.2.1 and 6.2.2, if the software is running on a Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliance. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf91098.

Affected configurations

• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8\(2\)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References