high Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2018-0296Cisco ASA — Unauthenticated Crash and File Read

Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls can be reloaded by an unauthenticated request to their web interface, and on some releases the same flaw reads files off the device.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade to a fixed Adaptive Security Appliance release per Cisco's advisory, and restrict who can reach the web interface.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
7.5/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
100%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2018-06-07
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
discovery
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190, T1083
Severity
high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attacker needsNetwork access to the appliance web interface

Behind the card

5 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2018-0296 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07