PT-2018-8715 · Cisco · Cisco Firepower System

Published 2018-04-19 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2018-0272

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco Firepower System Software (affected versions not specified)

Description: A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to improper error handling while processing SSL traffic. An attacker could exploit this by sending a large volume of crafted SSL traffic to the vulnerable device, potentially degrading the device performance by triggering a persistent high CPU utilization condition.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-755

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0272

Affected Products

Cisco Firepower System

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0272 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180418-firepower · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0272 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/103925 · Note