HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2732

Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the SIP inspection functionality in Cisco PIX and Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 devices 7.0 before 7.0(7)16, 7.1 before 7.1(2)71, 7.2 before 7.2(4)7, 8.0 before 8.0(3)20, and 8.1 before 8.1(1)8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via unknown vectors, aka Bug IDs CSCsq07867, CSCsq57091, CSCsk60581, and CSCsq39315.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Adaptive Security Appliance 5500
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2008-09-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2732

  • Confirm whether Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2732.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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