CVE-2010-4675: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) do not properly determine the interfaces for which TELNET connections should be permitted, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via vectors involving the "lowest security level interface," aka Bug ID CSCsv40504.

Affected products

• Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software: up to and including 8.2\(2\); version 7.0 only; version 7.0(0) only; version 7.0(2) only; version 7.0(4) only; version 7.0(5) only; …
• Cisco ASA 5500

Published 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.