CVE-2008-3817
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD
Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified sequence of packets, related to the "initialization code for the hardware crypto accelerator."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (81th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3803)
- Published
- October 23, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3803 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- cisco / adaptive security appliance 5500 series
- cisco / pix security appliance
- cisco / pix security appliance
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32392
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080a183ba.shtml(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31865
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021088
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2899
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46027
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5597
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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