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Fencer Vulns
high 8.6

CVE-2018-0228 json

A vulnerability in the ingress flow creation functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remot…

published 2018-04-19 8 y ago modified 2026-08-11 2 mo ago also EUVD-2018-1051

cvss
8.6
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability in the ingress flow creation functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU to increase upwards of 100% utilization, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of an internal software lock that could prevent other system processes from getting CPU cycles, causing a high CPU condition. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a steady stream of malicious IP packets that can cause connections to be created on the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust CPU resources, resulting in a DoS condition during which traffic through the device could be delayed. This vulnerability applies to either IPv4 or IPv6 ingress traffic. This vulnerability affects Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software that is running on the following Cisco products: 3000 Series Industrial Security Appliances (ISA), ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls, ASA Services Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Adaptive Security Virtual Appliances (ASAv), Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliances, Firepower 4110 Security Appliances, Firepower 9300 ASA Security Modules. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf63718.

Patch / fix

  • cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.1.7.20, 9.2.4.27, 9.4.4.13, 9.6.3.17, 9.7.1.16, 9.8.2.14, 9.9.1
  • cisco secure_firewall_threat_defense 6.1.0.6, 6.2.0.5, 6.2.2.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-18-184-01 updated cvss 8.6

Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley Stratix 5950

  • Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley Stratix 5950 1783-SAD4T0SBK9, 1783-SAD2T2SPK9, 1783-SAD4T0SPK9, 1783-SAD2T2SBK9
    affected: mitigation “For additional information please see the Rockwell Automation security notification at (login required): https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1073860” urldefense.proofpoint.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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