CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-0231

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-20, CWE-787

Description

A vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) library of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of the affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious TLS message to an interface enabled for Secure Layer Socket (SSL) services on an affected device. Messages using SSL Version 3 (SSLv3) or SSL Version 2 (SSLv2) cannot be be used to exploit this vulnerability. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a buffer underflow, triggering a crash on an affected device. This vulnerability affects Cisco ASA Software and Cisco FTD Software that is running on the following Cisco products: Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv), Firepower Threat Defense Virtual (FTDv), Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliance. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve18902, CSCve34335, CSCve38446.

Affected configurations

• cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8\(1\) • cisco adaptive security appliance software 98.1\(1.154\) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.0 < 6.1.0.6) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.2.1 < 6.2.2.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References