CVE-2018-0240

CVE-2018-0240 describes multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the Application Layer Protocol Inspection feature of Cisco ASA and FTD Software, affecting a wide range of Cisco security appliances. These vulnerabilities, stemming from logical errors during traffic inspection, allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a device reload by sending a high volume of malicious traffic. With a CVSS score of 8.6 (High), the attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring no user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.