CVE-2005-3788
Race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.0(0), 7.0(2), and 7.0(4), when running with an Active/Standby configuration…
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.0(0), 7.0(2), and 7.0(4), when running with an Active/Standby configuration and when the failover LAN interface fails, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (standby firewall failure) by sending spoofed ARP responses from an IP address of an active firewall, which prevents the standby firewall from becoming active, aka "failover denial of service."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.4 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 20051114 RE: [ADVISORY] CISCO ASA Failover DoS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 17550 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1015205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 15407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20051114 [ADVISORY] CISCO ASA Failover DoS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 178 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- cisco-asa-failover-dos(23160) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-3783 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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