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CVE-2022-20866

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20866 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve an RSA private key due to a logic error in hardware-based cryptography. This vulnerability, exploitable via a Lenstra side-channel attack, could enable an attacker to impersonate devices or decrypt traffic. The CVSS score is 7.5 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and high confidentiality impact. While not actively exploited or having public exploit code, it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.16.0, < 9.16.3.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.17.0, < 9.17.1.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.18.0, < 9.18.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.1.0, < 7.2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1688 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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
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References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-rsa-key-leak-Ms7UEfZz
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