CVE-2018-15462

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense < 6.2.3.12 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via TCP Ingress Handler

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the TCP ingress handler for the data interfaces that are configured with management access to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an increase in CPU and memory usage, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient ingress TCP rate limiting for TCP ports 22 (SSH) and 443 (HTTPS). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted, steady stream of TCP traffic to port 22 or 443 on the data interfaces that are configured with management access to the affected device.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108178

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0206
EPSS Percentile 78.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-399 CWE-770
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/firepower_threat_defense < 6.2.3.12
Published May 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026