CVE-2025-20134 – Cisco Secure Firewall SSL/TLS Certificate Parsing Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-20134 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 14, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability in the certificate processing 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 the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

    This vulnerability is due to improper parsing of SSL/TLS certificates. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted SSL/TLS certificate to an affected system through a listening SSL/TLS socket. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.

    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-415
    Added Reference https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-ssltls-dos-eHw76vZe
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