What is CVE-2019-12700?

CVE-2019-12700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2019-12700?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Firepower Management Center

CVE-2019-12700

A vulnerability in the configuration of the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) used in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software, Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software, and Cisco FXOS Software could allow an authenticated…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.019 (76.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Cisco Firepower Management Center — versions unspecified
Cisco Firepower_1000
Cisco Firepower_2100
Cisco Firepower_9300
Cisco Firepower_9300_firmware — versions r114, r241
Cisco Firepower_extensible_operating_system
Cisco Firepower_threat_defense
Cisco Secure_firewall_management_center

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CISCO, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12700?: CVE-2019-12700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2019-12700?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.