CVE-2022-20748

MEDIUM

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

A vulnerability in the local malware analysis process 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 insufficient error handling in the local malware analysis process of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted file through the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the local malware analysis process to crash, which could result in a DoS condition. Notes: Manual intervention may be required to recover from this situation. Malware cloud lookup and dynamic analysis will not be impacted.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 68.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-755 CWE-664
Status published

Affected Products (1)

cisco/firepower_threat_defense

Timeline

Published May 03, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026