7.5
HIGH
CVE-2021-40114
Cisco Snort Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the way the Snort detection engine processes ICMP traffic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper memory resource management while the Snort detection engine is processing ICMP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of ICMP packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources on the affected device, causing the device to reload.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 27, 2021, 7:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 26, 2024, 4:09 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2021-40114 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Cisco firepower_management_center
2 Cisco firepower_threat_defense
3 Cisco unified_threat_defense
4 Cisco secure_firewall_management_center
1 Snort snort

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2021-40114 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2021-40114 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Nov. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:2.9.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Nov. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:2.9.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Nov. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:2.9.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Nov. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:2.9.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00011.html
    Added Reference https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-s2R7W9UU
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5354
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3 Cisco Systems, Inc. AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CVSS V3.1 Cisco Systems, Inc. AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 19, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5354 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 11, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00011.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 29, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-s2R7W9UU No Types Assigned https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-s2R7W9UU Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-401
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_management_center:2.9.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.4.0.12 *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.5.0 up to (excluding) 6.6.3 *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.7.0 up to (excluding) 6.7.0.2 *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 16.12 up to (excluding) 16.12.6 *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 17.3 up to (excluding) 17.3.4a *cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 17.4 up to (excluding) 17.4.2
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:snort:snort:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.0.0 up to (excluding) 2.9.18
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 27, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the way the Snort detection engine processes ICMP traffic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper memory resource management while the Snort detection engine is processing ICMP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of ICMP packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources on the affected device, causing the device to reload. Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the way the Snort detection engine processes ICMP traffic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper memory resource management while the Snort detection engine is processing ICMP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of ICMP packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources on the affected device, causing the device to reload.
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-40114 is associated with the following CWEs:

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.41 }} 0.05%

score

0.74066

percentile

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