Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software SSH Connections Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary

CVECVE-2021-34781
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercisco
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-27 19:15:08 UTC
Updated2026-08-11 19:33:44 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.5 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-119 | CWE-755 | CWE-119 CWE-119


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
3.1[email protected]Secondary8.6HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
3.1CNADECLARED8.6HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.3.0 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.4.0 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.4.0.13 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.5.0 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.6.0 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.7.0.3 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 6.7.1 All All All
Application Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual Appliance 7.0.0 All All All
Application Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software SSH Connections Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 tools.cisco.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Additional Advisory Data

Exploits

CNA: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

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