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CVE-2021-40114

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-40114 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco products utilizing the Snort detection engine, including Firepower Threat Defense and Secure Firewall Management Center. This flaw, rated 7.5 High, allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust device resources and cause a reload by sending specially crafted ICMP packets. While there are no known public exploits or active exploitation, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.4.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.5.0, < 6.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.7.0, < 6.7.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:2.9.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:2.9.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0237 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00011.html
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-s2R7W9UU
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5354