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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software VPN SAML Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Published May 3, 2019

Description

A vulnerability in the implementation of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 Single Sign-On (SSO) for Clientless SSL VPN (WebVPN) and AnyConnect Remote Access VPN in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to successfully establish a VPN session to an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper credential management when using NT LAN Manager (NTLM) or basic authentication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by opening a VPN session to an affected device after another VPN user has successfully authenticated to the affected device via SAML SSO. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to connect to secured networks behind the affected device.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published May 3, 2019
Updated Nov 19, 2024
Reserved Dec 6, 2018
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 19, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Aug 11, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner cisco
Published May 3, 2019
Updated Nov 19, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2019-10271