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title: "CVE-2026-20222: Cisco Secure Firewall ASA & FTD - Denial of Service"
description: "Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Software contain a denial of service vulnerability caused by improper resource management in EIGRP update message handling, letting unauthenticated adjacent attackers cause device reloads by sending crafted updates."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-20222/
---

# CVE-2026-20222 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA & FTD - Denial of Service

Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Software contain a denial of service vulnerability caused by improper resource management in EIGRP update message handling, letting unauthenticated adjacent attackers cause device reloads by sending crafted updates.

CVSS base score 7.4 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.17% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20222)

## Details

Type

Denial of Service

Impact

Denial Of Service

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Published

16 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-401](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest available version that addresses this EIGRP resource management issue.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20222](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20222)
- [https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-eigrp-dos-GOhNejSj](https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-eigrp-dos-GOhNejSj)

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- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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