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CVE-2024-20481

Cisco ASA and FTD Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

CiscoAdaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)

Added to KEV catalog
24 October 2024
Federal remediation due date
14 November 2024
Weakness classification (CWE)
CWE-772

CISA Description

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.

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

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