Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20402

High

Published: 23 October 2024

Published
23 October 2024
Modified
15 July 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0084 75.2th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20402 is a high-severity Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer (CWE-788) vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the SSL VPN feature for 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 reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of…

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service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to a logic error in memory management when the device is handling SSL VPN connections. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SSL/TLS packets to the SSL VPN server of the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

cisco
adaptive security appliance software
9.12.1, 9.12.1.2, 9.12.1.3, 9.12.2, 9.12.2.1
cisco
firepower threat defense
6.2.3, 6.2.3.1, 6.2.3.10, 6.2.3.11, 6.2.3.12

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References