Out-of-bounds read in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) - CVE-2020-3298
Published: May 7, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU27600
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-3298
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)
How to mitigate CVE-2020-3298
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).
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) - addressed in versions 9.6.4.40, 9.8.4.17, 9.9.2.66, 9.10.1.37, 9.12.3.7, 9.13.1.7