Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Web Services DoS Vulnerability (cisco-sa-asaftd-websrvs-dos-X8gNucD2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193914

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, the remote Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability, due to incomplete error checking when parsing HTTP headers. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via specially crafted HTTP request, to cause the system to stop responding.

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

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

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCwj10955

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d89c58cf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193914

File Name: cisco-sa-asaftd-websrvs-dos-X8gNucD2-ftd.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 4/26/2024

Updated: 5/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-20353

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/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: 4/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-20353

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-asaftd-websrvs-dos-X8gNucD2

IAVA: 2024-A-0252-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCwj10955