Denial of service in Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2023-20155
CWE-ID CWE-20
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center, FMC)
Client/Desktop applications / Antivirus software/Personal firewalls

Vendor Cisco Systems, Inc

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU82683

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20155

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a lack of rate-limiting of requests that are sent to a specific API that is related to an FMC log. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center, FMC): 6.2.3 - 7.4.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fmc-logview-dos-AYJdeX55


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.



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