CVE-2026-20154

Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Logging Denial of Service

Severity
High 8.6
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
34.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the system rate-limiting process for syslog message 419002 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 high CPU utilization on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper rate limiting for syslog message 419002. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a flood of TCP synchronization (SYN) packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause high CPU utilization, resulting in performance degradation. 

Weakness: CWE-835

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software

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