CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-20481
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Cisco ASA and FTD Denial-of-Service Vulnerability — Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a missing release of resource after effective lifetime vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) of the RAVPN service.
- Added to KEV
- 2024-10-24
- Remediation due
- 2024-11-14
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Notes
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-bf-dos-vDZhLqrW ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20481
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
A vulnerability in the Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) service of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) of the RAVPN service.
This vulnerability is due to resource exhaustion. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of VPN authentication requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources, resulting in a DoS of the RAVPN service on the affected device. Depending on the impact of the attack, a reload of the device may be required to restore the RAVPN service. Services that are not related to VPN are not affected.
Cisco Talos discussed these attacks in the blog post Large-scale brute-force activity targeting VPNs, SSH services with commonly used login credentials.
Affected configurations
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.1
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.2
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.3
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.4
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.5
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.6
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.7
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.8
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.9
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.10
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.11
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.12
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.13
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.14
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.15
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.16
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.17
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.2.3.18
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.1
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.2
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.3
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.4
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.5
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.6
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.7
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.8
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.9
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.10
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.11
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.12
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.13
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.14
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.15
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.16
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.17
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.4.0.18
• 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 6.6.7
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.7.1
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.6.7.2
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.7.0
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.7.0.1
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.7.0.2
• cisco secure firewall threat defense 6.7.0.3
• 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
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Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness