VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6625

high
Published 2017-05-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

A "Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.0 through 6.2.2 and Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Module Denial of Service" vulnerability in the access control policy of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected system to stop inspecting and processing packets, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper SSL policy handling by the affected software when packets are passed through the sensing interfaces of an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted packets through a targeted system. This vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower System Software that is configured with the SSL policy feature. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvc84361.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
80%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.0.0
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.0.1
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.1.0
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.1.0.2
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.2.0
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.2.1
cisco ciscofirepower_threat_defense6.2.2

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.