#VU12083 Resource exhaustion in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center, FMC) - CVE-2018-0272
Published: April 23, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12083
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-2018-0272
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center, FMC)
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center, FMC)
Software vendor:
Cisco Systems, Inc
Cisco Systems, Inc
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper error handling while processing SSL traffic. A remote attacker can send a large volume of specially crafted SSL traffic, trigger a persistent high CPU utilization condition, degrade the device performance and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists due to improper error handling while processing SSL traffic. A remote attacker can send a large volume of specially crafted SSL traffic, trigger a persistent high CPU utilization condition, degrade the device performance and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Update to version 6.2.3.