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Cisco ASA Software Failover Command Injection Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

CISCO

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

8.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Cisco ASA is prone to a failover command injection vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The vulnerability is due to improper handling of secured failover communication messages when the failover ipsec feature is configured. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted UDP packets directed to the failover interface IP address. An attacker needs IP connectivity to the failover interface IP addresses to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Version 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Apply the appropriate updates from Cisco.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)