CVE-2008-3817: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 Series

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 Series and PIX Security Appliances 8.0 before 8.0(4) and 8.1 before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an unspecified sequence of packets, related to the "initialization code for the hardware crypto accelerator."

Affected products

• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 Series: any version
• Cisco Pix Security Appliance: version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only

Published 2008-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.