CVE-2005-3788 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-3788

Race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.0(0), 7.0(2),...

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.0(0), 7.0(2), and 7.0(4), when running with an Active/Standby configuration and when the failover LAN interface fails, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (standby firewall failure) by sending spoofed ARP responses from an IP address of an active firewall, which prevents the standby firewall from becoming active, aka "failover denial of service."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

adaptive security appliance software
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0\(0\), 7.0\(2\), 7.0\(4\)

Timeline

Official Publish: November 24th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.