No exploitation reported

CVE-2020-3562

No exploitation reported by the sources we read.

Published2020-10-21
WeaknessCWE-119

Am I affected?

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Description

A vulnerability in the SSL/TLS inspection of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series firewalls could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation for certain fields of specific SSL/TLS messages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed SSL/TLS message through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition. No manual intervention is needed to recover the device after it has reloaded.

Timeline

dates in UTC

2020-10-2119:15CVE publishedNVD

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTC

Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days

Block these indicators

Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-3562?format=txt
CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-3562?format=csv
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Versions per branch

NVD

Cisco secure firewall threat defenseversion to verify

Branch	Affected	Fixed in	Source
6.3	= 6.3.0	no fix published	NVD
6.4	= 6.4.0	no fix published	NVD
6.5	= 6.5.0	no fix published	NVD

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Fix

Advisories and patches

tools.cisco.comVendor Advisory

Detection

Nuclei template: none so far
Exploit-DB: no entry
Proof-of-concept repositories: none listed

Sources

CISA-ADPSSVC decisionnone2024-11-13
OpenCVESSVC decisionnone—
NVDCVSS 3.18.6read 2026-10-23
CNACVSS 3.08.6read 2026-10-23
NVDCVSS 2.07.1read 2026-10-23
CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-119read 2026-10-23
NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-119read 2026-10-23
FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.8 %2026-10-22

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: 2020-10-21
Last Modified: 2026-08-11
NVD status: Modified

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-3562?

Is CVE-2020-3562 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2020-3562 has not been confirmed. Its EPSS score was 1.8% on 2026-10-22, the estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2020-3562?

CVE-2020-3562 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.6 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

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