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Cisco ASA: CVE-2019-1705: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Cisco ASA: CVE-2019-1705: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/02/2019
Created
05/03/2019
Added
05/02/2019
Modified
08/17/2023

Description

A vulnerability in the remote access VPN session manager of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow a unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the remote access VPN services. The vulnerability is due to an issue with the remote access VPN session manager. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by requesting an excessive number of remote access VPN sessions. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-asa-update-latest

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