Vulnerability details
Vulnerable component: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-20353
CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Description:
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when parsing HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP request to the appliance and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.