CVE-2007-0959: Cisco ASA 5500

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco PIX 500 and ASA 5500 Series Security Appliances 7.2.2, when configured to inspect certain TCP-based protocols, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) via malformed TCP packets.

Affected products

• Cisco ASA 5500: version 7.2(2) only
• Cisco Pix Firewall Software: version 7.2(2) only

Published 2007-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.