Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack
Cisco announced patches on Wednesday to fix a security vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) that is being actively abused and might result in a denial-of-service (DoS) scenario.
The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-20481 (CVSS score: 5.8), impacts Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software and the Cisco ASA Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) service.
The security vulnerability, which results from resource exhaustion, could be used by remote, unauthenticated attackers to disrupt the RAVPN service.
According to a Cisco statement, an attacker might take advantage of this vulnerability by flooding a compromised device with VPN authentication requests read more about Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack.
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