CVE-2010-4689: Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.3(2) do not properly preserve ACL behavior after a migration, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an unspecified type of network traffic that had previously been denied, aka Bug ID CSCte46460.

Affected products

• Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software: up to and including 8.3\(1\); 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.