CVE-2018-15388

Description

A vulnerability in the WebVPN login process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause increased CPU utilization on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to excessive processing load for existing WebVPN login operations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple WebVPN login requests to the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to increase CPU load on the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.6
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.436

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability For Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareNCM
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability (CVE-2018-15388)NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1706057Security Update for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 99.17(1.69)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234