Vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (CVE-2023-20270)
Summary
Vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (CVE-2023-20270). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability in the interaction between the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol preprocessor and the Snort 3 detection engine for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured policies or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper error-checking when the Snort 3 detection engine is processing SMB traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted SMB packet stream through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort process to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20270 has been found in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.8/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense CVE-2023-20270" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2023-20270 (Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense) — CWE-20 / CVSS v3 5.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-20) exists in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.8/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- patch sec.cloudapps.cisco.com