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CVE-2020-3283

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3283 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software on Firepower 1000 Series platforms. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit a communication error in the SSL/TLS handler by sending a crafted message, leading to a buffer underrun and device reload. With a CVSS score of 8.6, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no known public exploit code or active exploitation, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.4.0, < 6.4.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.12\(2.12\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:asa_5505_firmware:9.12\(2.12\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.13\(0.33\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:asa_5505_firmware:9.13\(0.33\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.12\(2.12\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:asa_5510_firmware:9.12\(2.12\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.13\(0.33\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:asa_5510_firmware:9.13\(0.33\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0196 is in the 62nd 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

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-tls-dos-4v5nmWtZ
Vendor Advisory