CVE-2026-20050 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Do Not Decrypt exclusion feature of the SSL decryption functionality in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software. The flaw is caused by improper memory management during inspection of TLS 1.2 encrypted traffic. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger the issue by sending crafted TLS 1.2 traffic through an affected device when the relevant SSL decryption policy path is exercised. Successful exploitation causes the affected device to reload, resulting in a service interruption. The issue is specific to TLS 1.2 traffic; other TLS versions are not affected.
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