CVE-2018-15388

 

Published at: - 03-05-2019 05:29

Last modified: - 21-11-2022 03:37

Total changes: - 2

Description

A vulnerability in the WebVPN login process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause increased CPU utilization on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to excessive processing load for existing WebVPN login operations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending multiple WebVPN login requests to the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to increase CPU load on the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• 20190501 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software WebVPN Denial of Service Vulnerability-Vendor Advisory

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2018-15388

 

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Common vulnerability scoring system

 

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