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Cisco ASA Health and Performance Monitor DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The Health and Performance Monitor of Cisco ASA is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A vulnerability in Health and Performance Monitoring (HPM) for ASDM functionality of Cisco ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of an affected device and eventual denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a race condition in the operation of the HPM functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of half-open simultaneous connections to be established through the affected device.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Version 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 9.0 and 9.1
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates from Cisco.