CVE-2020-3564

MEDIUM

Cisco ASA & FTD FTP Inspection Bypass via Flow Tracking

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the FTP inspection engine of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass FTP inspection. The vulnerability is due to ineffective flow tracking of FTP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted FTP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass FTP inspection and successfully complete FTP connections.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 66.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-284 CWE-436
Status published
Products (3)
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance < 9.6
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.8.0 - 9.8.4.26
cisco/firepower_threat_defense < 6.3.0.6
Published Oct 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026