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CVE-2020-3255

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.80% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-05-06 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-3255
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.80%
Cisco

Original NVD Description

A vulnerability in the packet processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient memory management. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of IPv4 or IPv6 traffic through an affected device. This traffic would need to match a configured block action in an access control policy. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a memory exhaustion condition on the affected device, which would result in a DoS for traffic transiting the device, as well as sluggish performance of the management interface. Once the flood is stopped, performance should return to previous states.