CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-20854

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-11-15 Modified 2026-08-11 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-11-15
Last modified
2026-08-11
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-755

Description

A vulnerability in the processing of SSH connections of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper error handling when an SSH session fails to be established. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of crafted SSH connections to the instance. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause resource exhaustion, resulting in a reboot on the affected device.

Affected configurations

• cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.1.0 <= 6.1.0.7) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.2.0 <= 6.2.0.6) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.2.2 <= 6.2.2.5) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.2.3 <= 6.2.3.18) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.3.0 <= 6.3.0.5) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.4.0 <= 6.4.0.15) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.5.0 <= 6.5.0.5) • cisco secure firewall management center (>= 6.7.0 <= 6.7.0.3) • cisco secure firewall management center 6.2.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.0 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.0.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.3 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.4 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.5 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.5.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 6.6.5.2 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.0 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.0.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.1.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.2 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.2.1 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.3 • cisco secure firewall management center 7.0.4 • 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 <= 6.2.2.5) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.2.3 <= 6.2.3.18) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.3.0 <= 6.3.0.5) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.4.0 <= 6.4.0.15) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.5.0 <= 6.5.0.5) • cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.7.0 <= 6.7.0.3) • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.0 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.0.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.3 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.4 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.5 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.5.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.5.2 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.0 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.0.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.1.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.2 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.2.1 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.3 • cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness

References