{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 10 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40125 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-40125 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-40125 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software, published on 27 Oct 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-40125 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-40125 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software, published on 27 Oct 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40125 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40125/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40125/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-40125","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40125/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-40125","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cg2g-27wj-x8x6"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Cisco ASA/FTD","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An authenticated remote attacker can cause a device reload by sending malformed IKEv2 messages, affecting Cisco ASA and FTD software.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"cisco","cpe":[{"product":"adaptive_security_appliance_software","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5505_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5512-x_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5515-x_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5525-x_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5545-x_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5555-x_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5580_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"asa_5585-x_firmware","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"secure_firewall_threat_defense","vendor":"cisco"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-400","name":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"},{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) implementation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper control of a resource. An attacker with the ability to spoof a trusted IKEv2 site-to-site VPN peer and in possession of valid IKEv2 credentials for that peer could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed, authenticated IKEv2 messages to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of the device.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software","id":"CVE-2021-40125","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software","products":["cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software","cisco:secure_firewall_threat_defense"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cisco Umbrella Email Enumeration Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-40126"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client","id":"CVE-2021-40124"},"products":["Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software"],"published":"2021-10-27","related":[{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2025-20333","kev_date_added":"2025-09-25","published":"2025-09-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SNMP Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2016-6366","kev_date_added":"2022-05-24","published":"2016-08-18"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection","id":"CVE-2026-20349","kev_date_added":"2026-08-11","published":"2026-08-11"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Cisco ASA and FTD Denial of Service","id":"CVE-2024-20353","kev_date_added":"2024-04-24","published":"2024-04-24"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) CLI Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2016-6367","kev_date_added":"2022-05-24","published":"2016-08-18"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Cisco ASA and FTD Read-Only Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2020-3452","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-07-22"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Cisco ASA and FTD Information Disclosure","id":"CVE-2020-3259","kev_date_added":"2024-02-15","published":"2020-05-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-11-07","vendors":["Cisco"]},"summary":"An authenticated remote attacker can cause a device reload by sending malformed IKEv2 messages, affecting Cisco ASA and FTD software.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40125/"}