Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software SIP DoS (cisco-sa-asa-ftd-sipdos-GGwmMerC)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149302

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco FTD Software is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability due to a bug which causes a crash. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending crafted SIP traffic, in order to cause a DoS condition.

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 Cisco bug ID CSCvw26544

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?79f85bf3

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewErp.x?alertId=ERP-74594

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvw26544

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149302

File Name: cisco-sa-asa-ftd-sipdos-GGwmMerC-ftd.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 5/6/2021

Updated: 3/31/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco Firepower Threat Defense

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-1501

CWE: 613

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-asa-ftd-sipdos-GGwmMerC

IAVA: 2021-A-0205-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvw26544