Cisco ASA Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2020-3373)

high Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 506050

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

A vulnerability in the IP fragment-handling implementation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a memory leak on an affected device. This memory leak could prevent traffic from being processed through the device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling when specific failures occur during IP fragment reassembly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted, fragmented IP traffic to a targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to continuously consume memory on the affected device and eventually impact traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. The device could require a manual reboot to recover from the DoS condition. Note: This vulnerability applies to both IP Version 4 (IPv4) and IP Version 6 (IPv6) traffic.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 506050

File Name: tenable_ot_cisco_CVE-2020-3373.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 10/5/2026

Updated: 10/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3373

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.12.4.2, cpe:/o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.12.4.3, cpe:/o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.13.1.12, cpe:/o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.14.1.15, cpe:/o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.8.4.22, cpe:/o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:9.8.4.25

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Cisco

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3373

CWE: 400, 401

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