Firewall Services Module Software
CVE-2014-0710
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Concurrency control, locking
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, M complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.31%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Race condition in the cut-through proxy feature in Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) Software 3.x before 3.2(28) and 4.x before 4.1(15) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-362. Race condition in the cut-through proxy feature in Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) Software 3.x before 3.2(28) and 4.x before 4.1(15) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via certain matching traffic, aka Bug ID CSCuj16824. Affected products include: Cisco Firewall Services Module Software. Version information: before 3.2.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Race condition in the cut-through proxy feature in Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) Software 3.x before 3.2(28) and 4.x before 4.1(15) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via certain matching traffic, aka Bug ID CSCuj16824.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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Attack Technique
Race conditions occur when multiple concurrent requests exploit the brief time gap between checking a condition and acting upon it (TOCTOU - Time of Check, Time of Use).
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices, and the ASA Services Module (ASASM) in Cisco Catalyst 6500
The auth-proxy functionality in Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) software 3.1 and 3.2 before 3.2(20.1), 4.0 before
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices with software 7.x before 7.2(5.10), 8.0 before 8.0(5.28), 8.1 and 8.2 b
The SQL*Net inspection engine in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 7.x before 7.2(5.12), 8.x before 8.2(5
The authorization functionality in Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 3.1.x and 3.2.x before 3.2(25) and 4.x before 4
GitHub PoC
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