Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-20015

Medium

Published: 04 March 2026

Published
04 March 2026
Modified
16 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.5th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-20015 is a medium-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the IKEv2 feature of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a DoS condition on an affected device that may impact the availability of services to…

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devices elsewhere in the network. This vulnerability is due to a memory leak when parsing IKEv2 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IKEv2 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources, causing a DoS condition that will eventually require the device to be manually reloaded.

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
9.18.1 — 9.18.4.71 · 9.19.1 — 9.20.4.10 · 9.22.1.1 — 9.22.2.13
cisco
firepower threat defense software
7.2.0 — 7.2.11 · 7.3.0 — 7.4.3 · 7.6.0 — 7.6.4

Mitigating Controls

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

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