What is CVE-2017-3885?

CVE-2017-3885 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-04-07.

How severe is CVE-2017-3885?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

CVE-2017-3885

A vulnerability in the detection engine reassembly of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition because the Snort process consumes a high level of CPU resources. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower System Software running software releases 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, or 6.2.1 when the device is configured with an SSL policy that has at least one rule specifying traffic decryption. More Information: CSCvc58563. Known Affected Releases: 6.0.0 6.1.0 6.2.0 6.2.1.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.015 (71.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Cisco Secure_firewall_management_center — versions 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0
N/a Cisco Firepower Detection Engine — versions Cisco Firepower Detection Engine

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

psirt@cisco.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-3885?: CVE-2017-3885 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-04-07.
How severe is CVE-2017-3885?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.