CVE-2020-3373

HIGH

Cisco ASA & FTD DoS via IP Fragment Reassembly Memory Leak

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the IP fragment-handling implementation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak on an affected device. This memory leak could prevent traffic from being processed through the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling when specific failures occur during IP fragment reassembly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted, fragmented IP traffic to a targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to continuously consume memory on the affected device and eventually impact traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. The device could require a manual reboot to recover from the DoS condition. Note: This vulnerability applies to both IP Version 4 (IPv4) and IP Version 6 (IPv6) traffic.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0191
EPSS Percentile 83.5%
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 (7)
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.8.4.22
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.8.4.25
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.12.4.2
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.12.4.3
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.13.1.12
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.14.1.15
cisco/firepower_threat_defense 6.6.0.1
Published Oct 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026