CVE-2019-1978: medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Stream Reassembly Bypass Vulnerability
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33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 5.8epss 9.4%
from disclosure to weapon67 days
Published on NVDNov 5
1st PoC+67d
A vulnerability in the stream reassembly component 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 improper reassembly of traffic streams. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted streams through an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to bypass filtering and deliver malicious requests to protected systems that would otherwise be blocked.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwarepublic PoCs found — 1
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