CVE-2010-4679 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2010-4679

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software...

Vulnerability Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly handle Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) connection failures, which allows remote OCSP responders to cause a denial of service (TCP socket exhaustion) by rejecting connection attempts, aka Bug ID CSCsz36816.

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, 5500 series adaptive security appliance, asa 5500
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 7.0, 7.0\(0\), 7.0\(2\), 7.0\(4\), 7.0\(5\), 7.0\(5.2\), 7.0\(6.7\), 7.0.1, 7.0.1.4, 7.0.2, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.3, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.1, 7.1\(2\), 7.1\(2.5\), 7.1\(2.27\), 7.1\(2.48\), 7.1\(2.49\), 7.1\(5\), 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.2, 7.2\(1\), 7.2\(1.22\), 7.2\(2\), 7.2\(2.5\), 7.2\(2.7\), 7.2\(2.8\), 7.2\(2.10\), 7.2\(2.14\), 7.2\(2.15\), 7.2\(2.16\), 7.2\(2.17\), 7.2\(2.18\), 7.2\(2.19\), 7.2\(2.48\), 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 8.0, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.2\(1\), 8.2.1, 8.2.2

Timeline

Official Publish: January 7th, 2011
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.