Denial of service in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software

1) Out-of-bounds read

EUVDB-ID: #VU27600

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-3298

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) implementation. A remote attacker can send specially crafted OSPF packets in a short period of time, trigger out-of-bounds read error and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.

Mitigation

Vendor recommends to update the Cisco FTD Software Release to version 6.2.3.16 (June 2020), 6.3.0.6 (future release), 6.4.0.9 (May 2020) and 6.5.0.5 (future release).

Vulnerable software versions

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA): 9.5 - 9.13

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD): 6.2.3 - 6.5.0

External links

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asa-ftd-ospf-dos-RhMQY8qx

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.