Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-0149 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Cisco ASA Appliance TCP Connection Exhaustion

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
cisco

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance 7.2 before 7.2(4.46), 8.0 before 8.0(4.38), 8.1 before 8.1(2.29), and 8.2 before 8.2(1.5); and Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliance; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections) via crafted TCP segments during termination of the TCP connection that cause the connection to remain in CLOSEWAIT status, aka "TCP Connection Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability."