CVE-2022-20760

HIGH

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense - Denial of Service via DNS Inspection Handler

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the DNS inspection handler of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition (DoS) on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper processing of incoming requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted DNS requests at a high rate to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to stop responding, resulting in a DoS condition.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0259
EPSS Percentile 85.8%
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 (3)
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software < 9.12.4.38
cisco/firepower_threat_defense 7.1.0
cisco/firepower_threat_defense < 6.4.0.15
Published May 03, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026