Adaptive Security Appliance Software
CVE-2013-5551
MEDIUM
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
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1DescriptionCVE.org
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, when certain same-security-traffic and management-access options are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and device reload) by using the clientless SSL VPN portal for internal-resource browsing, aka Bug ID CSCui51199.
AnalysisAI
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, when certain same-security-traffic and management-access options are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119), which allows attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, when certain same-security-traffic and management-access options are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and device reload) by using the clientless SSL VPN portal for internal-resource browsing, aka Bug ID CSCui51199. Affected products include: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checking. Enable ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries. Use safe string functions.
Buffer overflow in the IKEv1 and IKEv2 implementations in Cisco ASA Software before 8.4(7.30), 8.7 before 8.7(1.18), 9.0
Update: On November 5, 2025, Cisco became aware of a new attack variant against devices running Cisco Secure ASA Softwar
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 8.x before 8.2(5.48), 8.3 before 8.3(2.40), 8.4 before 8.4(7.9), 8.6 be
A vulnerability in Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) code in the Clientless SSL VPN functionality of Cisco ASA Software,
A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN functionality of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Softw
A vulnerability in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Th
A vulnerability in the web services interface for remote access VPN features of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
A vulnerability in the authorization subsystem of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authen
A vulnerability in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Th
A vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remo
The encryption-processing feature in Cisco libSRTP before 1.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via
Stack-based buffer overflow in the DCERPC inspection engine on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devi
Same weakness CWE-119 – Buffer Overflow
View allSame technique Buffer Overflow
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