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CVE-2018-15454

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15454 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a high rate of specially crafted SIP requests, causing the affected device to reload or experience high CPU usage. With a CVSS score of 8.6 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. While there is no public exploit code or KEV entry, media coverage and community discussion indicate awareness, and it was reported as a zero-day at the time of discovery.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.4, < 9.4.4.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.6, < 9.6.4.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.8, < 9.8.3.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.9, < 9.9.2.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.10, < 9.10.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0438 is in the 83rd 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)

ciscoworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181031-asaftd-sip-dos
MitigationVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105768
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1042129
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry