CVE-2010-4679

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

07/01/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly handle Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) connection failures, which allows remote OCSP responders to cause a denial of service (TCP socket exhaustion) by rejecting connection attempts, aka Bug ID CSCsz36816.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software::::::::		8.2\(2\) (including)
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(0\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(2\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(4\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(5\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(5.2\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(6.7\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.4.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.6:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software::::::::		8.2\(2\) (including)
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(0\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(2\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(4\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(5\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(5.2\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0\(6.7\):::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.4.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:7.0.6:::::::*

CVE-2010-4679

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools