CVE-2005-3788 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2005-3788?

CVE-2005-3788 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software, published on 24 Nov 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.0(0), 7.0(2), and 7.0(4), when running with an Active/Standby configuration and when the failover LAN interface fails, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (standby firewall failure) by sending spoofed ARP responses from an IP address of an active firewall, which prevents the standby firewall from becoming active, aka "failover denial of service."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3788?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software.

How do I fix CVE-2005-3788?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-3788 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2005-3788 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3788 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2qpc-3frw-rxpf.