🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-20023

MEDIUM 6.1
CVSS Score
6.1
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A vulnerability in the OSPF protocol of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to corrupt memory on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to memory corruption when parsing OSPF protocol packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted OSPF packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause memory corruption causing the affected device to reboot, resulting in a DoS condition.

CWE CWE-787
Vendor cisco
Product cisco secure firewall adaptive security appliance (asa) software
Ecosystems
Industries
NetworkingTelecommunications
Published Mar 4, 2026
Last Updated Mar 4, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Cisco / Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
9.12.1 9.12.1.2 9.12.1.3 9.12.2 9.12.2.4 9.12.2.5 9.12.2.9 9.12.3 9.12.3.2 9.12.3.7 9.12.4 9.12.3.12 9.12.3.9 9.12.2.1 9.12.4.2 9.12.4.4 9.12.4.7 9.12.4.10 9.12.4.13 9.12.4.8 9.12.4.18 9.12.4.24 9.12.4.26 9.12.4.29 9.12.4.30 9.12.4.35 9.12.4.37 9.12.4.38 9.12.4.39 9.12.4.40 9.12.4.41 9.12.4.47 9.12.4.48 9.12.4.50 9.12.4.52 9.12.4.54 9.12.4.55 9.12.4.56 9.12.4.58 9.12.4.62 9.12.4.65 9.12.4.67 9.16.1 9.16.1.28 9.16.2 9.16.2.3 9.16.2.7 9.16.2.11 9.16.2.13 9.16.2.14 9.16.3 9.16.3.3 9.16.3.14 9.16.3.15 9.16.3.19 9.16.3.23 9.16.4 9.16.4.9 9.16.4.14 9.16.4.19 9.16.4.27 9.16.4.38 9.16.4.39 9.16.4.42 9.16.4.48 9.16.4.55 9.16.4.57 9.16.4.61 9.16.4.62 9.16.4.67 9.16.4.70 9.16.4.71 9.16.4.76 9.16.4.82 9.16.4.84 9.16.4.85 9.17.1 9.17.1.7 9.17.1.9 9.17.1.10 9.17.1.11 9.17.1.13 9.17.1.15 9.17.1.20 9.17.1.30 9.17.1.33 9.17.1.39 9.17.1.45 9.17.1.46 9.18.1 9.18.1.3 9.18.2 9.18.2.5 9.18.2.7 9.18.2.8 9.18.3 9.18.3.39 9.18.3.46 9.18.3.53 9.18.3.55 9.18.3.56 9.18.4 9.18.4.5 9.18.4.8 9.18.4.22 9.18.4.24 9.18.4.29 9.18.4.34 9.18.4.40 9.18.4.47 9.18.4.50 9.18.4.52 9.18.4.53 9.18.4.57 9.18.4.66 9.18.4.67 9.18.4.68 9.19.1 9.19.1.5 9.19.1.9 9.19.1.12 9.19.1.18 9.19.1.22 9.19.1.24 9.19.1.27 9.19.1.28 9.19.1.31 9.19.1.37 9.19.1.38 9.19.1.42 9.20.1 9.20.1.5 9.20.2 9.20.2.10 9.20.2.21 9.20.2.22 9.20.3 9.20.3.4 9.20.3.7 9.20.3.9 9.20.3.10 9.20.3.13 9.20.3.16 9.20.4 9.20.4.7 9.20.4.10 9.20.4.14 9.22.1.1 9.22.1.3 9.22.1.2 9.22.1.6 9.22.2.9 9.22.2.13 9.22.2.14 9.23.1 9.23.1.7 9.23.1.13 9.23.1.19 9.23.1.22
Cisco / Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
6.4.0 6.4.0.1 6.4.0.3 6.4.0.2 6.4.0.4 6.4.0.5 6.4.0.6 6.4.0.7 6.4.0.8 6.4.0.9 6.4.0.10 6.4.0.11 6.4.0.12 6.4.0.13 6.4.0.14 6.4.0.15 6.4.0.16 6.4.0.17 6.4.0.18 7.0.0 7.0.0.1 7.0.1 7.0.1.1 7.0.2 7.0.2.1 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.6.1 7.0.6.2 7.0.6.3 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.8.1 7.1.0 7.1.0.1 7.1.0.2 7.1.0.3 7.2.0 7.2.0.1 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.4.1 7.2.5 7.2.5.1 7.2.6 7.2.7 7.2.5.2 7.2.8 7.2.8.1 7.2.9 7.2.10 7.2.10.2 7.3.0 7.3.1 7.3.1.1 7.3.1.2 7.4.0 7.4.1 7.4.1.1 7.4.2 7.4.2.1 7.4.2.2 7.4.2.3 7.4.2.4 7.4.3 7.6.0 7.6.1 7.6.2 7.6.2.1 7.7.0 7.7.10.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-ospf-ZH8PhbSW