CVE-2021-34781

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - Denial of Service via SSH Connection Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

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