# CVE-2005-3788: Race condition in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause standby firewall failure via spoofed ARP responses in Active/Standby configurations, requiring attention from network administrators.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Nov 2005
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2qpc-3frw-rxpf

## 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: 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.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software

- [CVE-2025-20333](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20333/): Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Buffer Overflow (critical 9.9, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2016-6366](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-6366/): Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SNMP Buffer Overflow (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-20349](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20349/): Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection (high 8.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2024-20353](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20353/): Cisco ASA and FTD Denial of Service (high 8.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2016-6367](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-6367/): Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) CLI Remote Code Execution (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2005-3788 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-3788/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-3788/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3788
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3788
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-3788

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-3788/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.