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CVE-2020-3259

Exploitation: active CVSS 7.5 HIGH Ransomware: known use

CVSS base score: 7.5 (High) vendor CNA · v3.0

Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.

Cisco ASA and FTD Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Vendor: Cisco   Product: Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)

Description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker could retrieve memory contents on an affected device, which could lead to the disclosure of confidential information due to a buffer tracking issue when the software parses invalid URLs that are requested from the web services interface. This vulnerability affects only specific AnyConnect and WebVPN configurations.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 262 points from 2021-12-11, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 73.1% on 2025-03-29.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (ADP/Vulnrichment) 9 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
none published
Exploit / Pen Test
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
partial
—
7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-200 —
2024-05-01

KEV Catalog Status

2024-02-15
2024-03-07
Known

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2024-02-15 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2024-05-01 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2025-11-13 #StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware FBI
2024-04-18 #StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware CISA

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References