7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-12678

Published: 02/10/2019 Updated: 16/08/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection module of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote malicious user to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of SIP messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious SIP packet through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the malicious user to trigger an integer underflow, causing the software to try to read unmapped memory and resulting in a crash.

Vulnerability Trend

Vulnerable Product Search on Vulmon Subscribe to Product

cisco adaptive_security_appliance

cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software

cisco firepower threat defense

Vendor Advisories

A vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection module of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and 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 improper parsing of SIP messa ...

Recent Articles

Life's certainties: Death, taxes, and Cisco patching more serious vulnerabilities
The Register • Shaun Nichols in San Francisco • 04 Oct 2019

Switchzilla closes off 18 CVE-listed holes, get to work Hot patches for ColdFusion: Adobe drops trio of fixes for three serious flaws

Cisco has issued an update to address security flaws in three of its networking and security offerings. Switchzilla's latest security bundle includes fixes for 18 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in the firmware for the Adaptive Security Appliance, Firepower Management Center, and Firepower Threat Defense lines. Administrators are advised to test and install the updates as soon as possible. Among the most serious of the vulnerabilities is the pack of eight CVE-listed SQL injection flaws in the Firepow...