CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-15454
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-01
- 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 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
Description
A vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload or trigger high CPU, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of SIP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending SIP requests designed to specifically trigger this issue at a high rate across an affected device. Software updates that address this vulnerability are not yet available.
Affected configurations
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.4 < 9.4.4.27)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.6 < 9.6.4.18)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.8 < 9.8.3.16)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.9 < 9.9.2.32)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.10 < 9.10.1.2)
• cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.1.0 < 6.1.0.7)
• cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.2.0 < 6.2.0.6)
• cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.2.2 < 6.2.2.4)
• cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.2.3 < 6.2.3.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105768 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042129 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181031-asaftd-sip-dos Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105768 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042129 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181031-asaftd-sip-dos Mitigation, Vendor Advisory