Description

A vulnerability in the OSPF protocol of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to corrupt memory on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to memory corruption when parsing OSPF protocol packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted OSPF packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause memory corruption causing the affected device to reboot, resulting in a DoS condition.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-03-04T18:35:35.358Z

Last Modified :

2026-03-04T21:34:39.881Z

Source :

cisco
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-20023 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Cisco
  • Adaptive Security Appliance Software
  • Secure Firewall Threat Defense
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