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CVE-2026-20349

INDEX BUILT · 2026-10-18

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Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Remote Access SSL VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2026-203494 of 4 sources documented this
89

rank 89 = 40 + 22 + 0 + 17 + 10

rank@v1 · act now

Someone is already using it

CISA KEV catalog · public proof-of-concept · FIRST EPSS

EPSS 0.01010 · CISA KEV listed  ·  without this subject the record ranks 49

What it costs you if it fires

NVD CVSS base score, then the CNA's own

CVSS 8.6, from the CNA  ·  without this subject the record ranks 67

It is getting worse, not staying still

FIRST EPSS series, rescorings and bad loads removed

no persisting rise in 365 days  ·  without this subject the record ranks 89

How much of the world it touches

NVD CPE configurations

197 products in the CPE ranges  ·  without this subject the record ranks 72

Someone else already set the date

CISA KEV remediation due date

CISA remediation date held  ·  without this subject the record ranks 79

Hindsight · the state

0.0101EPSSKEV · LISTED
Severity8.6 HIGHreceipt
Harmunauthenticated · networkreceipt
Exploitationin the wild · KEVreceipt
Defenseno fix version held
Movementsteadyreceipt
PLATEAU10Minimal movement since 2026-08-12, 67 days at 0.01, as of 2026-10-18. arc-rules@v1

Foresight · where to check next

No weakness class or product neighbourhood is held for this record, so this index cannot name anywhere to check next. That is an absence in the record, not a finding about the software.

Color is a claim, not decoration:the hostile worldthe defenseno signal

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Reachnetwork-reachable · no privileges required · no user interaction · low attack complexityreceipt
ImpactComplete availability loss, with impact beyond the vulnerable componentreceipt
Scored fromCVSS v3.1 · the CNA's vectorreceipt
Weakness classCWE-244 Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection')receipt
Published consequencesCWE-244: Confidentiality, Other: Read Memory, Othercwe-consequences@4.20
Ransomware campaign useUnknown to CISAreceipt

CISA KEV & Federal Remediation Deadline from the record and CISA

The fix, and how long it's been waiting.

Fixed inNo fix version in held sources, as the index stood on 18 Oct 2026.
Patch available sinceNo dated patch-availability record in held sources. The index holds reference URLs without dates and only the current revision of the CVE record, so the day a fix first existed cannot be derived. Only the versions it landed in.
CISA remediation statusoverdue since 2026-08-14receipt
CISA required actionApply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see…receipt
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Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

BOD 26-04 deadlineNot worked out yet. CISA scores every KEV entry for the directive, and this index has not loaded its scoring for this one.
Published to CISA KEVsame dayderived

Exploit Status & Known PoCs a ladder, not a score

Current rung: Exploited in the wild · CISA KEV listed, 2026-08-11.

  • RUNG 1Nothing observed in held sources
  • RUNG 2Proof-of-concept published · 1 public repository2026-10-18receipt
  • RUNG 3Exploited in the wild · CISA KEV listed2026-08-11receipt
  • RUNG 4Ransomware campaign use known

Authority who says so

CVSS, the CNA8.6 HIGHreceipt
Exploit probability0.0101 · top 37% of all CVEsreceipt
Blast breadth2 products across 1 vendorderived
Assigned byciscoreceipt
Recorded changes19 · last 18 Oct 2026derived

Affected & Fixed Versions as published

Affected productCisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software; Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Softwarereceipt
Published rangescisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.1; cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.1.28; cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2; cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2.3receipt
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cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.1.28
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2.7
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2.11
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2.13
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2.14
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.3.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.3.14
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.3.15
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.3.19
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.3.23
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.9
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.14
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.19
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.27
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.38
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.39
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.42
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.48
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.55
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.57
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.61
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.62
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.67
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.70
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.71
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.76
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.82
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.84
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.85
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.89
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.4.92
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.1.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.2
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.2.5
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.2.7
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.2.8
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.3.39
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.3.46
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.3.53
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.3.55
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.3.56
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.5
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.8
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.22
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.24
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.29
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.34
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.40
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.47
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.50
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.52
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.53
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.57
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.66
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.67
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.68
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.71
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.76
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.82
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.90
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.18.4.135
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.5
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.9
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.12
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.18
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.22
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.24
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.27
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.28
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.31
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.37
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.38
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.19.1.42
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.1.5
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.2
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.2.10
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.2.21
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.2.22
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.4
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.7
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.9
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.10
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.13
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.16
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.3.20
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.7
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.10
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.14
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.19
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.22
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.28
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.30
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.34
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.20.4.46
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.1.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.1.2
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.1.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.1.6
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2.4
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2.9
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2.13
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2.14
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2.20
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.2.32
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.22.3.5
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.3
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.7
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.13
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.19
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.22
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.26
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.32
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.23.1.195
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.24.1
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.24.1.5
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.24.1.9
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.24.1.11
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.24.1.155
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.0.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.1.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.2.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.3
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.4
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.5
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.6
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.6.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.6.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.6.3
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.7
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.8
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.8.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.0.9
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.0.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.3
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.4
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.4.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.5
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.5.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.5.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.6
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.7
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.8
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.8.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.9
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.10
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.10.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.11
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.2.12
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.3.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.3.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.3.1.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.3.1.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.1.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.2.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.2.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.2.3
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.2.4
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.3
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.4
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.7
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.4.8
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.6.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.6.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.6.2
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.6.2.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.6.4
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.7.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.7.10
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.7.10.1
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.7.11
cisco secure firewall threat defense 7.7.13
cisco secure firewall threat defense 10.0.0
cisco secure firewall threat defense 10.0.2

A rung lights from a row in the index, never from an assessment. "Held sources" is the true scope of the claim: this index reads the CVE record, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST's EPSS and public proof-of-concept repositories, and it does not observe attacks.

Unaudited dollar value2 of 3 inputs carry a receipt
Exposure$30,900over the next 30 days, if this record is yours
Movementno material movementthe record holds only daily drift and scoring model releases
Basisassumeda published average, not your estate

$30,900 = $4.99M incident cost x 0.6121449559255632 exposure x 0.0101 likelihood

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Attack path

Unauthenticated network requestno credentials, no interactionCISA KEV listingadded 08-11 · due 08-14Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defens…CWE-244 weaknessAdjacent componentsscope changeAvailability lossA:Hmandates remediationexploits CWE-244scope changedata compromise

What it is stated by the CNA

A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service for Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.  This vulnerability is due to insufficient error checking when processing HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the Remote Access SSL VPN service on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. receipt

NVD's analysis a second authority

weakness
CWE-244
affected versions
cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.1; cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.1.28; cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.16.2; and 194 more, listed in full below
also scored by
psirt@cisco.com 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Dated events

2026-08-11Added to CISA KEV2026-08-14CISA remediation due

Movement the material steps

12 Aug 20260.00969
28 Sep 20260.0101
Show all 5 observations
12 Aug 20260.00969
13 Aug 20260.00874
22 Aug 20260.0102
28 Aug 20260.02213
28 Sep 20260.0101

5 observations held. A highlighted step crossed a promotion threshold. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the instrument was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed. receipt

The full biography

EPSS 0.0101Published · CISA KEV2026-08-11Public PoC2026-10-18Index as of2026-10-18

Listed by CISA on the day it published and the record had been public for 2 months when this index was last written.

No material movement in 20 days as of the last ingest this index recorded.

Published 2026-08-11 receipt · CISA KEV 2026-08-11 receipt · Public PoC 2026-10-18 receipt · Index as of 2026-10-18 derived

Siblings and hubs

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Its defect family

cisco secure firewall adaptive security appliance (asa) software

Of the 2 records in this family, this is the only one whose title names secure firewall remote.

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