Cisco ASA and FTD Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Cisco / Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a missing release of resource after effective lifetime vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) of the RAVPN service.
- CVE identifier
- CVE-2024-20481
- Added to KEV
- Oct 24, 2024
- CISA catalog dueDate
- Nov 14, 2024
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Publisher's required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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- Ransomware use, as reported by CISA
- Unknown
- CVSS severity
- Not supplied by KEV
- EPSS probability
- Not available
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Source notes
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-bf-dos-vDZhLqrW ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20481
Source & freshness
Source updated: Nov 6, 2026, 7:44 PM UTC
Successfully checked: Nov 8, 2026, 12:22 AM UTC
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Automated source record, not an editorial advisory or an independent discovery. No affected or fixed version is inferred, and no organisation-specific risk rating is generated.