๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-20050

MEDIUM 6.8

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Decryption Policy Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVSS Score
6.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A vulnerability in the Do Not Decrypt exclusion feature of the SSL decryption feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper memory management during the inspection of TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of an affected device. Note: This vulnerability only affects traffic that is encrypted by TLS 1.2. Other versions of TLS are not affected.

CWE CWE-404
Vendor cisco
Product cisco secure firewall threat defense (ftd) software
Ecosystems
Industries
NetworkingTelecommunications
Published Mar 4, 2026
Last Updated Mar 4, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Affected Versions

Cisco / Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
7.0.0 7.0.0.1 7.0.1 7.1.0 7.0.1.1 7.1.0.1 7.0.2 7.2.0 7.0.2.1 7.0.3 7.1.0.2 7.2.0.1 7.0.4 7.2.1 7.0.5 7.3.0 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.3.1 7.1.0.3 7.2.4 7.0.6 7.2.5 7.2.4.1 7.3.1.1 7.4.0 7.0.6.1 7.2.5.1 7.4.1 7.2.6 7.0.6.2 7.4.1.1 7.2.7 7.2.5.2 7.3.1.2 7.2.8 7.6.0 7.4.2 7.2.8.1 7.0.6.3 7.4.2.1 7.2.9 7.0.7 7.7.0 7.4.2.2 7.2.10 7.6.1 7.4.2.3 7.0.8 7.6.2 7.7.10 7.0.8.1 7.6.2.1 7.7.10.1 7.4.2.4 7.2.10.2 7.4.3 7.0.9

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-dnd-dos-bpEcg7B7