CVE-2026-20023

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

04/03/2026

Last modified:

04/03/2026

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.<br /> <br /> 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.10

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-ospf-ZH8PhbSW