SB2022042814 - Denial of service in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software



SB2022042814 - Denial of service in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software

Published: April 28, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022042814
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

High 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-20767)

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber


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

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application in the Snort rule evaluation function. A remote attacker can send specially crafted UDP packets and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.