CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-0231
8.6 HIGH
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- 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
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040725 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-184-01 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180418-asa3 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040725 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-184-01 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180418-asa3 Vendor Advisory