vulnerability

Cisco FTD: CVE-2019-1981: Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software NULL Character Obfuscation Detection Bypass Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 16, 2019
Added
Jan 29, 2025
Modified
Jun 23, 2025

Description

A vulnerability in the normalization functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software, Cisco FirePOWER Services Software for ASA, and Cisco Firepower Management Center Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass filtering protections. The vulnerability is due to insufficient normalization of a text-based payload. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic that contains specifically obfuscated payloads through an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to bypass filtering and deliver malicious payloads to protected systems that would otherwise be blocked.

Solution

cisco-ftd-upgrade-latest
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