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CVE-2008-3817
Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2)…
High7.8EPSS 2.0%
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- cisco
Description
Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified sequence of packets, related to the "initialization code for the hardware crypto accelerator."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (7)
- 31865 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 32392 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5597 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- cisco-asa-cryptoaccelerator-dos(46027) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1021088 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20081022 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2899 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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