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CVE-2025-20252
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-401
Description
A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) module of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a memory leak, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper parsing of IKEv2 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a continuous stream of crafted IKEv2 packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to partially exhaust system memory, causing system instability like being unable to establish new IKEv2 VPN sessions. A manual reboot of the device is required to recover from this condition.
Affected products
- Cisco ASA Software: 9.8.4.15, 9.8.4.17, 9.8.4.25, 9.8.4.20, 9.8.4.22, 9.8.4.26 (+174)
- Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software: 6.2.3.16, 6.2.3.17, 6.2.3.18, 6.6.0, 6.6.0.1, 6.6.1 (+63)
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