#VU47947 Resource exhaustion in Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) - CVE-2020-3533
Published: October 21, 2020 / Updated: October 27, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU47947
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2020-3533
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)
Software vendor:
Cisco Systems, Inc
Cisco Systems, Inc
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) input packet processor. A remote attacker can send a high rate of SNMP requests to the SNMP daemon through the management interface on an affected devic, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.