Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Stream Reassembly Bypass (cisco-sa-20190816-ftd-srb)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142497

Synopsis

The remote device is affected by a stream reassembly bypass vulnerability.

Description

A stream reassembly bypass vulnerability exists in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) due to improper reassembly of traffic streams. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending specially crafted streams through an affected device to bypass filtering and deliver malicious requests to protected systems that would otherwise be blocked.

Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in the Cisco Security Advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?944df84a

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvq39955

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142497

File Name: cisco-sa-20190816-ftd-srb.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/6/2020

Updated: 11/9/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco Firepower Threat Defense

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1978

CWE: 264

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20190816-ftd-srb

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvq39955