CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-0272

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2018-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399, CWE-755

Description

A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling while processing SSL traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large volume of crafted SSL traffic to the vulnerable device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to degrade the device performance by triggering a persistent high CPU utilization condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh89340.

Affected configurations

• cisco firepower 6.2.1 • cisco firepower 6.2.2.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness

References