Cisco has issued an emergency fix for bugs in some of its software which are being actively exploited in the wild.
According to a security advisory from the company, the flaw that was patched was found in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), and in Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). It is described as a resource exhaustion vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20481. It was given a medium severity rating of 5.8.
