CVE-2024-20481
Cisco / Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
Added 2024-10-24
Due 2024-11-14
Cisco ASA and FTD Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a missing release of resource after effective lifetime vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) of the RAVPN service.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-bf-dos-vDZhLqrW ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20481
Metadata
| Added to KEV | 2024-10-24 |
| Remediation due | 2024-11-14 |
| Ransomware use | Unknown |
| CWEs | CWE-772 |
| Ingested | 2026-04-24 15:03:13 |
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