CVE-2020-3189

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - Memory Leak

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the VPN System Logging functionality for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak that can deplete system memory over time, which can cause unexpected system behaviors or device crashes. The vulnerability is due to the system memory not being properly freed for a VPN System Logging event generated when a VPN session is created or deleted. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by repeatedly creating or deleting a VPN tunnel connection, which could leak a small amount of system memory for each logging event. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause system memory depletion, which can lead to a systemwide denial of service (DoS) condition. The attacker does not have any control of whether VPN System Logging is configured or not on the device, but it is enabled by default.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 80.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/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-401 CWE-400
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/asa_5505_firmware 9.9\(2\)
cisco/asa_5505_firmware 9.9\(2.21\)
cisco/asa_5505_firmware 9.9\(2.52\)
cisco/asa_5505_firmware 9.9\(2.55\)
cisco/asa_5510_firmware 9.9\(2\)
cisco/asa_5510_firmware 9.9\(2.21\)
cisco/asa_5510_firmware 9.9\(2.52\)
cisco/asa_5510_firmware 9.9\(2.55\)
cisco/asa_5512-x_firmware 9.9\(2\)
cisco/asa_5512-x_firmware 9.9\(2.21\)
... and 40 more
Published May 06, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026