CVE-2022-20760
HIGHCisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense - Denial of Service via DNS Inspection Handler
Title source: llmDescription
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
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-dos-nJVAwOeq
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