#VU62685 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) - CVE-2022-20757

 

#VU62685 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) - CVE-2022-20757

Published: April 28, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU62685
Vulnerability risk: High
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:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-20757
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)
Software vendor:
Cisco Systems, Inc

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper traffic handling when platform limits are reached. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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