CVE-2020-3533

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense < 6.3.0.6 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via SNMP Polling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) input packet processor of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart unexpectedly. The vulnerability is due to a lack of sufficient memory management protections under heavy SNMP polling loads. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of SNMP requests to the SNMP daemon through the management interface on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the SNMP daemon process to consume a large amount of system memory over time, which could then lead to an unexpected device restart, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability affects all versions of SNMP.

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-400
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/firepower_threat_defense < 6.3.0.6
Published Oct 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026