CVE-2026-20154Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Logging Denial of Service
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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
- 8.6 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-835
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- cisco
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Sep 18, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software cisco:secure_firewall_adaptive_security_appliance_asa_software (from the name) | 9.16.1; 9.16.1.28; 9.16.2; 9.16.2.3; 9.16.2.7; 9.16.2.11; 9.16.2.13; 9.16.2.14; and 102 more ranges | CNA record |
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software cisco:secure_firewall_threat_defense_ftd_software (from the name) | 7.0.0; 7.0.0.1; 7.0.1; 7.0.1.1; 7.0.2; 7.2.0; 7.0.2.1; 7.0.3; and 48 more ranges | CNA record |
References
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asa-ftd-logging-dos-ZXXNesfN
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