CVE-2017-3793

MEDIUM

Cisco ASA 8.0-8.7, 9.0-9.6 DoS via TCP Normalizer Queue Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97923
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038329

Scores

CVSS v3 4.0
EPSS 0.0171
EPSS Percentile 74.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-399 CWE-400
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.1.2
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.2
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.2.11
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.2.15
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.3
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.3.6
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.3.12
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.3.19
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.4
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.4.3
... and 40 more
Published Apr 20, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026