Medium severity5.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 5, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-1981
CVE-2019-1981
Description
A vulnerability in the normalization functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software, Cisco FirePOWER Services Software for ASA, and Cisco Firepower Management Center Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass filtering protections. The vulnerability is due to insufficient normalization of a text-based payload. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic that contains specifically obfuscated payloads through an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to bypass filtering and deliver malicious payloads to protected systems that would otherwise be blocked.
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
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