CVE-2014-8023 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8023?

CVE-2014-8023 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software, published on 17 Feb 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.2(.3) and earlier, when challenge-response authentication is used, does not properly select tunnel groups, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended resource-access restrictions via a crafted tunnel-group parameter, aka Bug ID CSCtz48533.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8023?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8023?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-8023 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2014-8023 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8023 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-20349 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2024-20353 Cisco ASA and FTD Denial of Service Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2016-6367 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) CLI Remote Code Execution Exploited High 7.8

All Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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