CVE-2025-20134 Information

Aug 15, 2025 cve

Description

A vulnerability in the certificate processing of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

This vulnerability is due to improper parsing of SSL/TLS certificates. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted SSL/TLS certificate to an affected system through a listening SSL/TLS socket. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload resulting in a DoS condition.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-ssltls-dos-eHw76vZe

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.6

CNNVD-202508-1683 (Published: 2025-08-14)

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