Cisco ASA Remote Access SSL VPN random values

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Cisco ASA, Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Remote Access SSL VPN. Such manipulation leads to random values. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-20331. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA, Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software (the affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Remote Access SSL VPN. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a random values vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-330. The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the session authentication functionality of the Remote Access SSL VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to prevent users from authenticating. This vulnerability is due to insufficient entropy in the authentication process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by determining the handle of an authenticating user and using it to terminate their authentication session. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to force a user to restart the authentication process, preventing a legitimate user from establishing remote access VPN sessions.

The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-20331 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/23/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1600.001 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Firewall Software

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• Cisco

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• Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• ASA
• Firepower Threat Defense Software

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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