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DoS in Cisco Secure Firewall FTD SSL Decryption Do Not Decrypt exclusion (TLS 1.2)

IdentifiersCVE-2026-20050CWE-400

A vulnerability in the SSL decryption feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software, specifically in the “Do Not Decrypt” exclusion handling, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition. The issue is caused by improper memory management during inspection of TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic. An attacker can exploit the flaw by sending crafted TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic through an affected device, which can result in the device reloading. The vulnerability is limited to TLS 1.2 traffic; other TLS versions are not affected.

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Remote, unauthenticated denial of service against the affected Cisco Secure Firewall FTD device, resulting in a device reload and associated traffic interruption/outage.
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