What is CVE-2018-15443?

CVE-2018-15443 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2018-11-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-15443?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Firepower Management Center

CVE-2018-15443

A vulnerability in the detection engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) rule that inspects certain types of TCP traffic. The vulner…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.028 (84.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Cisco Firepower Management Center — versions n/a
Cisco Firepower_system_software

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15443?: CVE-2018-15443 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2018-11-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-15443?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.