7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-34781

Published: 27/10/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 632
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

A vulnerability in the processing of SSH connections for multi-instance deployments of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote malicious user to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device. This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper error handling when an SSH session fails to be established. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of crafted SSH connections to the instance. A successful exploit could allow the malicious user to cause resource exhaustion, which causes a DoS condition on the affected device. The device must be manually reloaded to recover.

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A vulnerability in the processing of SSH connections for multi-instance deployments of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the affected device This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper error handling when an SSH session fails to be establi ...