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CVE-2010-4679

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly handle Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) connection failures, which allows remote OCSP responders to cause a denial of service (TCP socket exhaustion) by rejecting connection attempts, aka Bug ID CSCsz36816.

Published

2011-01-07T12:00:50.233

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-20
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software ≤ 8.2\(2\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0\(0\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0\(2\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0\(4\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0\(5\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0\(5.2\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0\(6.7\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.1 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.1.4 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.2 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.4 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.4.3 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.5 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.6 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.7 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.8 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.0.8 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1\(2\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1\(2.5\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1\(2.27\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1\(2.48\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1\(2.49\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1\(5\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1.1 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.1.2 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(1\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(1.22\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.5\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.7\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.8\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.10\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.14\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.15\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.16\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.17\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.18\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.19\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2\(2.48\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2.1 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2.2 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2.3 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2.4 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 7.2.5 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.2 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.3 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.4 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.0.5 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.2\(1\) Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.2.1 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.2.2 Yes
Operating System cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software 8.2.2 Yes
Hardware cisco 5500_series_adaptive_security_appliance * Yes
Hardware cisco asa_5500 * Yes
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