CVE-2026-20154: high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security…
Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Logging Denial of Service
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.6epss 0.6%
A vulnerability in the system rate-limiting process for syslog message 419002 of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
This vulnerability is due to improper rate limiting for syslog message 419002. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a flood of TCP synchronization (SYN) packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause high CPU utilization, resulting in performance degradation.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareCisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) SoftwareRelated CVEs — Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security…
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