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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2011-3309

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2 through 8.4 process IKE requests despite a vpnclient mode configuration, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading IKE responder traffic, aka Bug ID CSCtt07749.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published