cve-2019-12700
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-10-02 19:06
Modified
2024-09-16 18:13
Severity ?
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Cisco FTD, FMC, and FXOS Software Pluggable Authentication Module Denial of Service Vulnerability
References
ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-fpmc-dosVendor Advisory
Impacted products
CiscoCisco Firepower Management Center
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