Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20408

High

Published: 23 October 2024

Published
23 October 2024
Modified
01 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0039 60.6th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20408 is a high-severity Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input (CWE-1287) vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software. Its CVSS base score is 7.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 39.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the Dynamic Access Policies (DAP) feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly. To exploit this…

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vulnerability, an attacker would need valid remote access VPN user credentials on the affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of data in HTTPS POST requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTPS POST request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (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