CVE-2021-34781
HIGHCisco Firepower Threat Defense - Denial of Service via SSH Connection Handling
Title source: llmDescription
A vulnerability in the processing of SSH connections for multi-instance deployments of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper error handling when an SSH session fails to be established. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of crafted SSH connections to the instance. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause resource exhaustion, which causes a DoS condition on the affected device. The device must be manually reloaded to recover.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-dos-rUDseW3r
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.0043
EPSS Percentile
62.6%
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-119
CWE-755
Status
published
Products (17)
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.3.0
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.4.0
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.4.0.13
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.5.0
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.6.0
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.7.0.3
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
6.7.1
cisco/firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance
7.0.0
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
6.3.0 - 6.4.0.13
cisco/sourcefire_defense_center
6.3.0
... and 7 more
Published
Oct 27, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026