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CVE-2018-0231

CVE information

Published

5 years ago

Last Modified

8 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) library of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of the affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious TLS message to an interface enabled for Secure Layer Socket (SSL) services on an affected device. Messages using SSL Version 3 (SSLv3) or SSL Version 2 (SSLv2) cannot be be used to exploit this vulnerability. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a buffer underflow, triggering a crash on an affected device. This vulnerability affects Cisco ASA Software and Cisco FTD Software that is running on the following Cisco products: Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv), Firepower Threat Defense Virtual (FTDv), Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliance. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve18902, CSCve34335, CSCve38446..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.8/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
None

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
8.6/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
Impact Score
4/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
None
Scope
Changed
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.8\(1\
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:98.1\(1
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
6.0 6.1.0.6
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
6.2.1 6.2.2.1