CVE-2013-5551: cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-5551 is a medium (CVSS 6.3) vulnerability in cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software. EPSS estimates a 1.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 01-11-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, when certain same-security-traffic and management-access options are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and device reload) by using the clientless SSL VPN portal for internal-resource browsing, aka Bug ID CSCui51199.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.