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CVE-2026-20295: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software sftunnel Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-16 · updated 2026-09-18
- Weakness: CWE-789
Description
A vulnerability in the sftunnel inter-device communication protocol of Cisco Secure FMC Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust the available memory of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper management of memory resources during sftunnel TLS connection setup. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted sftunnel TLS frames to an affected device during the connection setup. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust the available memory on the affected device, which could result in a DoS condition.
Affected products
- Cisco Firepower Management Center: 7.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.1, 7.0.1.1, 7.0.2, 7.2.0 (+61)
- Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software: 7.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.1, 7.0.1.1, 7.0.2, 7.2.0 (+53)
References
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