# CVE-2014-8023: Auth bypass in n/a

> Remote authenticated users can bypass resource-access restrictions in Cisco ASA when challenge-response authentication is enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Feb 2015
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-46xm-mj4f-4vwm

## 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: 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.

## Is CVE-2014-8023 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8023 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-2014-8023 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8023 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-2014-8023/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-8023/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8023
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8023
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8023

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