CVE-2018-0272

2018-04-1920:00:00

CWE-399

cisco

www.cve.org

AI Score

5.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

48.1%

JSON

A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling while processing SSL traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large volume of crafted SSL traffic to the vulnerable device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to degrade the device performance by triggering a persistent high CPU utilization condition. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh89340.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Cisco Firepower Threat Defense",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Cisco Firepower Threat Defense"
      }
    ]
  }
]