CVE-2020-3189

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - Memory Leak

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 79.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401 CWE-400
Status published

Affected Products (50)

cisco/asa_5550_firmware
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
cisco/asa_5505_firmware
cisco/asa_5505_firmware
cisco/asa_5505_firmware
cisco/asa_5505_firmware
cisco/asa_5510_firmware
cisco/asa_5510_firmware
cisco/asa_5510_firmware
cisco/asa_5510_firmware
cisco/asa_5512-x_firmware
cisco/asa_5512-x_firmware
... and 35 more

Timeline

Published May 06, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026