Cisco PIX 500 up to 7.1 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cisco PIX 500 up to 7.1 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-0149. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco PIX 500 up to 7.1 (Firewall Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance 7.2 before 7.2(4.46), 8.0 before 8.0(4.38), 8.1 before 8.1(2.29), and 8.2 before 8.2(1.5); and Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliance; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections) via crafted TCP segments during termination of the TCP connection that cause the connection to remain in CLOSEWAIT status, aka "TCP Connection Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability."

The weakness was released 02/17/2010 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared at cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2010-0149 since 01/04/2010. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 7.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (56336), SecurityFocus (BID 38275†), OSVDB (62433†), Secunia (SA38618†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1023612†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-51908, VDB-51907, VDB-51906 and VDB-51905. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: PIX 500 7.2

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2010-0149 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-0149
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-51901
X-Force: 56336
SecurityFocus: 38275 - Cisco ASA Appliance TCP Connection Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 38618 - Cisco ASA 5500 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 62433 - Cisco Multiple Products Series TCP Connection Exhaustion Remote DoS
SecurityTracker: 1023612 - Cisco ASA TCP, SIP, SCCP, DTLS, and IKE Processing Flaws Let Remote Users Deny Service
Vulnerability Center: 24911 - [cisco-sa-20100217-asa] Cisco ASA 5500 Series TCP Connection Exhaustion Remote DoS Vulnerability, High
Vupen: ADV-2010-0415

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 05/01/2026 02:16
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (58), 02/21/2017 17:15 (18), 05/01/2026 02:16 (17)
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