Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Pluggable Authentication denial of service

A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense and FirePOWER Management Center (Firewall Software) (affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Pluggable Authentication. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. As an impact it is known to affect availability.

The weakness was released 10/02/2019 as cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-fpmc-dos as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-12700 since 06/04/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/03/2019).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• FirePOWER Management Center
• Firepower Threat Defense

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.1

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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Class: Denial of service (CWE-404)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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06/04/2019 CVE assigned
10/02/2019 +120 days Advisory disclosed
10/03/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
10/03/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-fpmc-dos
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-12700 (🔒)

Created: 10/03/2019 10:28 AM
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