SB2021042832 - Denial of service in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software SIP
Published: April 28, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021042832
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-1501)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the SIP inspection engine of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted SIP packets to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.