CVE-2020-3179

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

A vulnerability in the generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a memory handling error when GRE over IPv6 traffic is processed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted GRE over IPv6 packets with either IPv4 or IPv6 payload through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to crash, resulting in a DoS condition.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0116
EPSS Percentile 78.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-415
Status published

Affected Products (25)

cisco/firepower_threat_defense < 6.3.0.5
cisco/asa_5505_firmware
cisco/asa_5505_firmware
cisco/asa_5510_firmware
cisco/asa_5510_firmware
cisco/asa_5512-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5512-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5515-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5515-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5520_firmware
cisco/asa_5520_firmware
cisco/asa_5525-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5525-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5540_firmware
cisco/asa_5540_firmware
... and 10 more

Timeline

Published May 06, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026