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CVE-2021-34753 (GCVE-0-2021-34753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-15 16:14 – Updated: 2024-11-15 18:06
VLAI
Title
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Ethernet Industrial Protocol Policy Bypass Vulnerabilities
Summary
A vulnerability in the payload inspection for Ethernet Industrial Protocol (ENIP) traffic for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured rules for ENIP traffic. This vulnerability is due to incomplete processing during deep packet inspection for ENIP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted ENIP packet to the targeted interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured access control and intrusion policies that should trigger and drop for the ENIP packet.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-15 18:01 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Affected: N/A
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cisco firepower_threat_defense_software Affected: 0 , < 6.4.0.13 (custom)
Affected: 6.5.0 , < 6.6.5.1 (custom)
Affected: 6.7.0 , < 6.7.0.3 (custom)
Affected: 7.0.0 , < 7.0.1 (custom)
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