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Medium [CVE-2026-20050] Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software SSL Decryption Policy Denial of Service Vulnerability

This medium-severity Cisco advisory covers CVE-2026-20050 affecting Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.1.0.1, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.1.0.2, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.1.0.3.

cisco-sa-ftd-dnd-dos-bpEcg7B7 Published Mar 4, 2026Updated by vendor Mar 4, 2026
CVE-2026-20050
Affected products & platforms
CiscoFirewallASA / Firepower
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Summary

A vulnerability in the Do Not Decrypt exclusion feature of the SSL decryption feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to improper memory management during the inspection of TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic through an affected device.

A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a reload of an affected device. Note: This vulnerability on…

Affected products named by the advisory: Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.1.0.1; Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.1.0.2; Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.1.0.3; Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.2.0.1; and 4 more.

Affected versions
  • Scope: At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco devices if they were running a vulnerable release of Cisco Secure FTD Software and had a Do Not Decrypt exception configured for an SSL decryption policy.

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Fixed versions

No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists — confirm against the vendor advisory.

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Mitigation checklist

Workaround status
  • There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

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