CVE-2013-6696

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software does not properly handle errors during the processing of DNS responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a malformed response, aka Bug ID CSCuj28861.

Affected products

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

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-6696
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-6696

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