CVE-2008-2734
Memory leak in the crypto functionality in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 devices 7.2 before 7.2(4)2, 8.0 before 8.0(3)14,…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Memory leak in the crypto functionality in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 devices 7.2 before 7.2(4)2, 8.0 before 8.0(3)14, and 8.1 before 8.1(1)4, when configured as a clientless SSL VPN endpoint, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and VPN hang) via a crafted SSL or HTTP packet, aka Bug ID CSCso66472.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 1020812 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- cisco-asa-sslvpn-dos(44868) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20080903 Remote Access VPN and SIP Vulnerabilities in Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 20080903 Cisco Applied Mitigation Bulletin: Identifying and Mitigating Exploitation of the Remote Access VPN and SIP Vulnerabilities in Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 31730 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30998 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2008-2727 (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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