CVE-2025-20222 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-20222

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Buffer Vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in the RADIUS proxy feature for the IPsec VPN feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper processing of IPv6 packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending IPv6 packets over an IPsec VPN connection to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of the device, resulting in a DoS condition.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software
Vulnerable Versions:
6.2.3, 6.2.3.9, 6.2.3.1, 6.2.3.2, 6.2.3.10, 6.4.0, 6.4.0.3, 6.4.0.4, 6.2.3.15, 6.2.3.6, 6.2.3.7, 6.2.3.12, 6.2.3.3, 6.2.3.11, 6.4.0.6, 6.2.3.13, 6.2.3.8, 6.2.3.4, 6.4.0.1, 6.2.3.5, 6.4.0.5, 6.2.3.14, 6.4.0.2, 6.4.0.8, 6.4.0.7, 6.6.0, 6.4.0.9, 6.2.3.16, 6.6.0.1, 6.6.1, 6.4.0.10, 6.4.0.11, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.4.0.12, 7.0.0, 6.2.3.17, 7.0.0.1, 6.6.5, 7.0.1, 7.1.0, 6.4.0.13, 6.6.5.1, 6.2.3.18, 7.0.1.1, 6.4.0.14, 7.1.0.1, 6.6.5.2, 7.0.2, 6.4.0.15, 7.2.0, 7.0.2.1, 7.0.3, 6.6.7, 7.2.0.1, 7.0.4, 7.2.1, 7.0.5, 6.4.0.16, 7.3.0, 7.2.2, 6.6.7.1, 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, 6.4.0.17, 7.0.6.1, 7.2.5.1, 7.4.1, 7.2.6, 7.0.6.2, 7.4.1.1, 6.6.7.2, 6.4.0.18, 7.2.7, 7.2.5.2, 7.3.1.2, 7.2.8, 7.4.2, 7.2.8.1, 7.0.6.3, 7.4.2.1, 7.2.9

Timeline

Official Publish: August 14th, 2025
Last Modified: August 14th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)