CVE-2018-15397

Published Oct 5, 2018

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source
ykramarz@cisco.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
4
Exploitability score
2.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-noinfo
ykramarz@cisco.com
CWE-320

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