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CVE-2008-2056
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco PIX security appliance 8.0.x before 8.0(3)9 and 8.1.x before 8.1(1)1 allows remote…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco PIX security appliance 8.0.x before 8.0(3)9 and 8.1.x before 8.1(1)1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a crafted Transport Layer Security (TLS) packet to the device interface.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20080604 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- cisco-pix-asa-tls-dos(42836) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1020178 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 30552 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1020179 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2008-2053 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-2056)Record last updated .