CVE-2017-3793

MEDIUM

Cisco ASA/Firepower <9.6 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

A vulnerability in the TCP normalizer of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software (8.0 through 8.7 and 9.0 through 9.6) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause Cisco ASA and FTD to drop any further incoming traffic on all interfaces, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper limitation of the global out-of-order TCP queue for specific block sizes. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of unique permitted TCP connections with out-of-order segments. An exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust available blocks in the global out-of-order TCP queue, causing the dropping of any further incoming traffic on all interfaces and resulting in a DoS condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvb46321.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.0
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 60.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-399 CWE-400
Status published

Affected Products (50)

cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software
... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Apr 20, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026