CVE-2010-4682: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by making multiple incorrect LDAP authentication attempts, aka Bug ID CSCtf29867.

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.