CVE-2025-20217

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Intrusion Detection Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
High 8.6
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.007
49.0th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Aug 14, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the packet inspection functionality of the Snort 3 Detection Engine of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of traffic that is inspected by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to enter an infinite loop while inspecting traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. The system watchdog will restart the Snort process automatically.

Weakness: CWE-835

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software