CVE-2024-20342Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Rate Filter Bypass Vulnerability
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the rate filtering feature of the Snort detection engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured rate limiting filter. This vulnerability is due to an incorrect connection count comparison. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic through an affected device at a rate that exceeds a configured rate filter. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to successfully bypass the rate filter. This could allow unintended traffic to enter the network protected by the affected device.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 57% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software
- affected 7.0.0
- affected 7.0.0.1
- affected 7.0.1
- affected 7.1.0
- affected 7.0.1.1
- affected 7.1.0.1
- affected 7.0.2
- affected 7.2.0
- affected 7.0.2.1
- affected 7.0.3
- affected 7.1.0.2
- affected 7.2.0.1
- affected 7.0.4
- affected 7.2.1
- affected 7.0.5
- affected 7.3.0
- affected 7.2.2
- affected 7.2.3
- affected 7.3.1
- affected 7.1.0.3
- affected 7.2.4
- affected 7.0.6
- affected 7.2.5
- affected 7.2.4.1
- affected 7.3.1.1
- affected 7.4.0
- affected 7.0.6.1
- affected 7.2.5.1
- affected 7.4.1
- affected 7.4.1.1
- affected 7.2.5.2
- affected 7.3.1.2
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References
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-2024-18057 (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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-20342)Record last updated .