CVE detail

CVE-2019-12677 — CVE-2019-12677

Published 2019-10-02 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cisco · Product adaptive_security_appliance_software · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
6.5
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0153
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
72.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition that prevents the creation of new SSL/Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections to an affected device. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of Base64-encoded strings. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by opening many SSL VPN sessions to an affected device. The attacker would need to have valid user credentials on the affected device to exploit this vulnerability. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite a special system memory location, which will eventually result in memory allocation errors for new SSL/TLS sessions to the device, preventing succes

Remediation

ProductVulnerable rangeFixed versionAdvisory
Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software>=unspecified<n/anot specifiedadvisory ↗

References

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