CVE-2024-20481 — Cisco ASA and FTD Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Exploitation status

CVE-2024-20481 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2024-10-24. 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.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project

Cisco

Affected product

Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)

Added to CISA KEV

2024-10-24

US federal remediation due date

2024-11-14

Ransomware association

Unknown

EPSS score

—

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-772

Remediation: the required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

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