CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-34781

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Published: Oct 27, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 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 attacker to cause resource exhaustion, which causes a DoS condition on the affected device. The device must be manually reloaded to recover.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.3.0 (including) 6.3.0 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.4.0 (including) 6.4.0 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.4.0.13 (including) 6.4.0.13 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.5.0 (including) 6.5.0 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.6.0 (including) 6.6.0 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.7.0.3 (including) 6.7.0.3 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 6.7.1 (including) 6.7.1 (including)
Firepower_management_center_virtual_appliance Cisco 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.0 (including)
Firepower_threat_defense Cisco 6.3.0 (including) 6.4.0.13 (excluding)
Firepower_threat_defense Cisco 6.5.0 (including) 6.6.5 (excluding)
Firepower_threat_defense Cisco 6.7.0 (including) 6.7.0.3 (excluding)
Firepower_threat_defense Cisco 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.1 (excluding)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.3.0 (including) 6.3.0 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.4.0 (including) 6.4.0 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.4.0.13 (including) 6.4.0.13 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.5.0 (including) 6.5.0 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.6.0 (including) 6.6.0 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.7.0.3 (including) 6.7.0.3 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 6.7.1 (including) 6.7.1 (including)
Sourcefire_defense_center Cisco 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.0 (including)

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