Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) BGP DoS (cisco-sa-asa-dos-P43GCE5j)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136830

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software is affected by a vulnerability in the implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) module due to incorrect processing of certain BGP packets. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a crafted BGP packet, in order to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvq66092.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?745a6bc4

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvq66092

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136830

File Name: cisco-sa-asa-dos-P43GCE5j-asa.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 5/26/2020

Updated: 3/31/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3305

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/ASA, Host/Cisco/ASA/model

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3305

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-asa-dos-P43GCE5j

IAVA: 2020-A-0205-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvq66092