CVE-2018-15397

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance IPsec VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published Oct 5, 2018 CVSS 3.1 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 1.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
A vulnerability in the implementation of Traffic Flow Confidentiality (TFC) over IPsec functionality in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to an error that may occur if the affected software renegotiates the encryption key for an IPsec tunnel when certain TFC traffic is in flight. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious stream of TFC traffic through an established IPsec tunnel on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a daemon process on the affected device to crash, which could cause the device to crash and result in a DoS condition.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-7275 A vulnerability in the implementation of Traffic Flow Confidentiality (TFC) over IPsec functionality in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to an error that may occur if the affected software renegotiates the encryption key for an IPsec tunnel when certain TFC traffic is in flight. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious stream of TFC traffic through an established IPsec tunnel on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a daemon process on the affected device to crash, which could cause the device to crash and result in a DoS condition.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cisco secure Firewall Management Center
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:6.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:6.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Cisco firepower Management Center
Cisco secure Firewall Management Center
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
cisco
Published
Updated
Nov 26, 2024, 2:33 PM
Reserved
Aug 17, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 5, 2018, 2:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:42 AM