CVE-2013-3463

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The protocol-inspection feature on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices does not properly implement the idle timeout, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection-table exhaustion) via crafted requests that use an inspected protocol, aka Bug ID CSCuh13899.

Affected products

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance: all versions
Cisco ASA Software: all versions

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-3463
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=30607
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62068
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028968
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-3463
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=30607
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62068
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028968

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