Cisco ASA Interim Release Notes

The software images listed below are Interim releases. They contain bug fixes which address specific issues found since the last Feature or Maintenance release. The images are fully supported by Cisco TAC and will remain on the download site only until the next Maintenance release is available.

Version 9.20.4.22 – March 5, 2026

Defects resolved in this release:

CSCwk74566Disable csd/hostscan invokation for clientless/webvpn flow
CSCwm80210MI: core.lina.async_thr is generated after reboot
CSCwn90327FP1150 ASA/FTD - Traceback and reload triggered by watchdog timer
CSCwo53752ASA FTD traceback in Checkheaps process after enabling "controller monitor internal-interfaces free-blocks 100" command
CSCwp60896ASA Clock reverts to UTC after device reload
CSCwq74443HA Primary/Active unit goes to disabled state as "HA state progression failed due to app sync timeout" in build 10.0.0-196
CSCwq774811140 FTD HA primary failed to reboot after executing the reload command from expert mode
CSCwq85473FP 4115 ASA Cluster: GTP inspection causing high lina CPU 70% - 90%+ depend on traffic
CSCwq88796Firepower: SSH access lost after timezone change in platform mode
CSCwq92373WA MI: Two apps went to Not Responding state with reason: Error in App Instance ftd. sma reported fault: Instance xxx is disabled due to restart loop. Please consider reinstalling this app-instance.
CSCwr10747ASA/FTD may traceback and reload due to memory exhaustion
CSCwr15611ASA/FTD - 1550 Block Depletion Due to Instability of TCP Syslog Channel(s)
CSCwr21835Dataplane <> Control Plane may be overwhemed in the event of a massive influx of traffic with no existing ARP Adj present
CSCwr21948WCCP redirection not working as expected on transparent FTD
CSCwr31136SNMP OID Polling for Chassis temperature not giving response
CSCwr43613FTD/ASA may traceback and reload
CSCwr58862ASA/FTD: SCEP enrollment fails with SCEP server reachable over VPN and sourced from inside interface
CSCwr62993FTD traceback and reload on DATAPATH
CSCwr71075FP2140 running FTD traceback during deployment
CSCwr72101Lina: Traceback and reload for watchdog on BGP
CSCwr78255Inconsistent Cluster State: All Nodes Acting as Data Nodes with No Control Node
CSCwr85470FTD silently drops out of order packets
CSCwr87102Problems may arise when an automated script attempts to deploy to add or delete an SNMP user in a multi-context environment.
CSCwr96082ASA: Traceback and reload on ARP code when the pinged device is unreachable
CSCws02848High cpu on block depletion
CSCws03492ASP ACL rule (dhcp network scope) fail to be removed during "no nameif" or interface deletion process
CSCws03807Memory leak in virtual-access nameif strings
CSCws03882ASA timestamp getting stuck for syslog messages until the device sync up with NTP
CSCws05886ASA may traceback during manual failover
CSCws06991Few FQDNs are not resolving after FTD upgrade
CSCws19908snmpEngineBoots does not increase when ASA reloads
CSCws25638FPR 3110 MI (shared subinterface) - Traffic outage when disabling multicast routing on one FW instance
CSCws27870LINA May Encounter Traceback and Reload if SSH Session Uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher
CSCws31035Lina Traceback and reload in Thread: "cli_xml_request_process"
CSCws33462Faults generated during first boot on 6.x can't be cleared
CSCws35491The identity cert will miss "ca" if the same cert also installed as device-certificate. Reboot will fail to install identity cert
CSCws35715ASA/FTD responding without relay_sig parameter in SAML dupicate request
CSCws36457While in App-Sync phase, cluster node does not transition to disabled state when CCL interface goes down
CSCws37370FTD , dcosAG continuously crashing
CSCws39799Traceback and reload in threadname datapath due to flow-offload.
CSCws59816ASA: Traceback with Thread Name DATAPATH-0-13302
CSCws61024Appliance enters into fail-safe mode due to warnings thrown by nat config.
CSCws62173License registration still fails with ssl trustpoint and smart transport mode configured despite fix for CSCwp10957
CSCws65199ASA/FTD does not accept "id-kp-ipsecIKE" or "anyExtendedKeyUsage" in EKU for usage type IPSEC VPN Peer
CSCws65834Lina: asacli Traceback & reload due to SSH/SCP initiated from firewall exec mode
CSCws82462ASA/FTD assert crash after applying capture type isakmp command from LINA CLI
CSCws86306Unable to retrieved SNMP OID crasActGrpName (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.22.1.1)
CSCws91179Warning about the usage of failsafe-exit
CSCws93424Passwordless users are not able to connect VPN from IOS/Android


Version 9.20.4.19 – December 10, 2025

Defects resolved since 9.20.4.14:

CSCwm80732 ASA/FTD - Traceback and reload Due to Race Condition in TCP Proxy
CSCwn27583 High lina CPU and/or Traceback and reload in spin_lock_get_actual_internal
CSCwn69079 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software OSPF Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability
CSCwo09439 ASA/FTD may traceback and reload in Thread Name 'DATAPATH-3-4280'
CSCwo45497 Counter from IKEV2 stats does not match the number of tunnels in VPN-Sessiondb
CSCwo59534 Memory corruption leading to lina assertion and traceback
CSCwo72352 Memory leak: ASA Fragment size 72 causing memory exhaustion in MEMPOOL_GLOBAL_SHARED POOL
CSCwo73885 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability
CSCwo76559 ASA/FTD traceback and reload with SNMP Notify Thread seen on 3110
CSCwo87763 ASA/FTD: Primary standby unit becomes Active after reload in HA set up
CSCwp64615 ASA/FTD: ASP drop capture for 'invalid-ip-length' or 'sp-security-failed' does not work with match criteria
CSCwq31342 FPR4200 | FPR3100 Multi Instance Chassis Deployment Failed in DNS configuration
CSCwq44834 Multicast and broadcast packets do not reach all multi-instance firewalls via shared interface on 3100/4200
CSCwq52188 FTD Traceback while executing `asp load-balance per-packet`
CSCwq52255 SSH login to FTD management IP address lands in FXOS shell instead of FTD CLISH due to missing /mnt/boot/application/*.def file
CSCwq64843 Deployment Failure After Removing An Object From ACL Used in DAP
CSCwq73656 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software OSPF Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CSCwq74986 FTD: Instance stuck in Boot Loop
CSCwq85986 FP4225: Interface with SFP - 10/25G_LR_S (or CSR_S) is not coming up after reboot of peer side.
CSCwq90072 ASDM Parsing Failure on Two Contexts
CSCwq95241 Reboots on FP2130 due to missing heimdall PID
CSCwr01482 FPR4215 "Not supported" alarm occurred, when insert the SFPs
CSCwr05837 SNMP process continuously restarts
CSCwr06290 ASA/FTD: Traceback in thread name CP Processing due to DCERPC inspection
CSCwr10732 Connection blocking active although "logging permit-hostdown' is set
CSCwr12965 Both the units in HA changed the encryption algorithm simultaneously
CSCwr14186 add context for cmd-invalid-encap asp-drop type in the "show asp drop" command usage
CSCwr22508 Device doesn't boot and gets stuck after a successful upgrade
CSCwr24999 FP3140 FTD HA Upgrade Getting Stuck
CSCwr26857 File policy stops working due to SMB tcp conn terminated after 1hr for unknown reason despite not idle
CSCwr27095 Anyconnect users incorrectly get the prompts, based on the previous tunnel-group
CSCwr28908 ASA: Traceback and reload after saving asdm image
CSCwr35582 Continuous logs_archive.asa-interface-idb.log getting generated on ASA
CSCwr42577 ASA/FTD may traceback and reload citing Thread Name 'lina' as the faulting thread.
CSCwr42969 Dynamic Offloaded Flows Interrupted midstream
CSCwr43586 Intermittent drop of self-originated ICMP TTL exceeded messages with reason "Unable to obtain connection lock (connection-lock)"
CSCwr48605 Lina traceback due to the incorrect option being received in the packet.
CSCwr50466 ASA/FTD: Wrong value shown for X509_STORE_CTX in 'show ssl objects'
CSCwr51629 RTSP Flows are dropped with drop reason "First TCP packet not SYN"
CSCwr55089 ASA/FTD - Traceback and Reload in Threadname DATAPATH
CSCwr58661 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software TCP Flood Denial of Service Vulnerability
CSCwr59870 ASAv on Hyper-v encountering boot loop issues when running netvsc driver
CSCwr61303 Lina: Traceback and reload webvpn_session_release
CSCwr61452 ASA traceback and reload due to memory corruption in IPsec SA pointers
CSCwr62800 High network latency observed on ASAv
CSCwr65540 ASA traceback while disabling GTP inspection
CSCwr74420 FTD - FTD RADIUS authentication fails with "bad authenticator" after disabling Management Interface Convergence
CSCwr79344 ASA/FTD traceback and reload in Lina
CSCwr81266 Unable to remove certificate-group-map
CSCwr83527 FP2110 Critical fault alerts for remote users
CSCwr84332 ASA/FTD traceback and reload in L2 vaccess_nameif_action thread
CSCwr88208 ASA/FTD: Fragmentation issue for IKE_Auth packets
CSCwr88733 Collecting "show tech-support fprm" results in corefile in TAR process
CSCwr94517 ASA traceback and reload while removing capture


Version 9.20.4.14 – October 29, 2025

Defects resolved since 9.20.4.10:

CSCvm76755 DP-CP arp-in and adj-absent queues need to be separated
CSCwe13965 Interface statistics and tunnel uptime display support for VTI/DVTI interfaces
CSCwk07934 Clock skew between FXOS and Lina causes SAML assertion processing failure
CSCwn50760 ASA Traceback after upgrade to 9.20.3.7
CSCwo76165 Deployment failure due to rsync
CSCwp10957 SSL error causing connection to Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) to terminate
CSCwp22743 wpk - 1gsx link remains up on wpk but on switch side it shows as not connected
CSCwp97402 WA: Traceback and reload due to lock contention on the tmatch table during deployment with large snmp config
CSCwq13032 3100/4200: 1G Management interface flapping after upgrade
CSCwq26863 FP2110 - ntpd process constantly crashing
CSCwq29706 Traceback and reload after editing SNMP config, with tmatch
CSCwq31988 Errors on all interface of FPR1010 | line protocol is down ( not associated with supervisor )
CSCwq36466 expat/xml FW rebooted itself and no crashinfo generated
CSCwq39942 CVE-2025-32463: sudo: Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain
CSCwq39943 CVE-2025-32462: sudo: Before 1.9.17p1, allows users to execute commands on unintended machines.
CSCwq43711 Idle SSH sessions persist beyond the configured timeout without graceful termination by Fin flag
CSCwq46058 ASA SNMP Response Issue - Responses Sent Only for Odd OIDs, Not for Even
CSCwq47622 Lina Traceback and Reload after enabling 'TLS Server Identity Discovery'
CSCwq48842 FTD: Packets Dropped due to tcp-seq-past-win due to delayed packet through Snort
CSCwq50373 ASA/FTD in HA, snmptranslate process during the boot-up causing High CPU and IPC timeouts, causing split-brain.
CSCwq60586 FTD upgrade failed due to bundle image existence verification failure
CSCwq65955 FPR 4200: HA link arp packets getting dropped, internal uplink linkChange counters incrementing
CSCwq70133 Password Expiry Age does not reset after Password Change
CSCwq72156 SNMP traps are not sent to one of multiple SNMP servers, in certain conditions
CSCwq73994 ASA : Performance and high CPU usage seen on Hyper-V
CSCwq78991 Firewall joins a cluster although gets incomplete ACL policy rules during replication
CSCwq79831 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CSCwq81480 FTD MI: SNMP polling fails to work after the upgrade
CSCwq82095 SAML response rejected with message for certain IDPs
CSCwq82225 Drop counter doesn't increment for embryonic related drops in 'show service policy'
CSCwq92728 ASA client IP missing from TACACS+ authorization request in SSH
CSCwq95810 "no http server basic-auth-client ASDM" allows ASDM connections to ASA.
CSCwq96870 Interfaces are coming up when the Firepower is shutting down
CSCwq98101 Policy deployment fails when inline-set is configured on FTD HA
CSCwq98648 Low RAM allocation on ASAv can trigger unexpected behavior in 'asdm image' command
CSCwr05406 Traceback in HA stby node while snmpwalk on natAddrMapTable
CSCwr13046 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Services Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
CSCwr15697 Block 80 depletion ssl_decrypt_cb
CSCwr19123 FPR HA ESP sequence number discrepancy when standby changes to Active resulting in Anti-replay drops
CSCwr22256 Traceback seen while FQDN list expands more than 200 entries for a resolved ip
CSCwr31782 Secure Client SAML - External Browser May Prompt for a Certificate when using IKEv2-IPsec and Certificate Mapping
CSCwr49028 Secure client tunnel group authentication is affected when using SDI protocol
CSCwr66525 WPK node rebooted with lina core while trying to form cluster in snp_nat_allocate_port


Version 9.20.4.10 – September 03, 2025

Defects resolved since 9.20.4.7:

CSCwd92327 on 2k platform, external authentication fails for users starting with number
CSCwk09488 Incorrect syslog generated on failure to process SGT from ISE during RA authentication
CSCwk33511 low memory/stress causing block double free and reload
CSCwk87700 Multiple core.svc_sam_statsAG on FxOS platforms
CSCwn27583 High lina CPU and/or Traceback and reload in spin_lock_get_actual_internal
CSCwn61232 Memory block corruption: RAVPN SSL/IKEV2 auth failure, AAA SHIM available fibers exhausted
CSCwn64025 ASA: IPv6 EIGRP routes learned from other neighbors are missing in updates after failover
CSCwn69078 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software OSPF DoS Vulnerability
CSCwo27260 Unit taking ~13 secs to become active
CSCwo42102 show tech-support fprm detail command is getting stuck for longer duration
CSCwo58033 [Cluster] CPU Utilization of 100% when NAT Pool exhaustion happens in a context.
CSCwo74009 Cisco FXOS and UCS Manager Software Command Injection Vulnerability
CSCwo91748 Lina: Traceback in thread name ssh on executing show access-list after ACL deletion
CSCwp13016 FTD/ASA SSH: Terminal monitor is not showing logs
CSCwp22612 Policy deploy failing on FTD when trying to remove Umbrella DNS Configuration
CSCwp25033 An ICMP not reachable storm might cause high CPU on a two units FTD cluster
CSCwp28801 WA HA: Error while fetching metadata for FTD HA.
CSCwp33077 SAML IdP entityID increase from capped 128 character maximum
CSCwp36133 Clarify the working of Fallthrough to Interface PAT (Destination Interface) as it is not working as expected
CSCwp66721 Memory leak in SSL crypto causing high Lina memory usage on lower-end devices
CSCwp67356 HA state should not transition from ColdStandby to Active
CSCwp68059 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Services Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
CSCwp93368 LINA traceback Observed on FTDv Firewalls Deployed in Azure: snp_vxlan_encap_and_send_to_remote_peer
CSCwq01526 Cisco Secure FTD Software Authenticated DoS Vulnerability
CSCwq07441 Memory Leak observed on FP2110 running ASA due to monitoring interface configured in HA
CSCwq07808 FP3105 Traceback and Reload after changing the speed on Ethernet interface
CSCwq16926 Traceback and Reload while two processes attempt to free a TD subnet structure
CSCwq18679 ASA from CSM/CLI - no access-list ACL_name line line_nr remark on last ACL line shows message - "Specified remark does not exist"
CSCwq21101 Invalid host header reveals ASA interface IP address
CSCwq22206 S2S VPN is not recovering after IPSEC-Rekey event
CSCwq23394 FTD may drop traffic in the Azure cloud at mlx5 driver level.
CSCwq27217 ASA: Traceback and reload on threat detection, interfaces unstable after that
CSCwq29375 ASA/FTD - Assert triggered during FP_PUNT replace (aaa account match)
CSCwq35960 OSPF: High CPU, Route flaps, Lina Traceback and Reload in High Availability Setup.
CSCwq40256 Inbound IPsec packets are dropped by IPsec offload when the crypto map ACL is using specific ports.
CSCwq50189 ASAv deploy failed - console stuck at continuous
CSCwq50506 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software IKEv2 DoS Vulnerability
CSCwq54109 FTD 3130 HA Lina tracebacks at ikev2_bin2hex_str
CSCwq70773 show asp rule-engine issues with complete and run time
CSCwq74204 IKEv1 L2Lvpn fails in phase 2 with "Rejecting IPsec tunnel: no matching crypto map entry" after upgrade
CSCwq74738 RAVPN SSL/IKEV2 AUTH FAILURE: AAA PROCESS MISHANDLING BROKEN FIBER CLASS
CSCwq79815 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Server Unauthorized Access Vulnerability


Version 9.20.4.7 – August 6, 2025

Defects resolved in this release:

CSCwb07908 Standby FTD/ASA sends DNS queries with source IP of 0.0.0.0
CSCwf72285 DAP: debug dap trace not fully shown after 3000+ lines
CSCwi80453 Active node reload during peer app sync or config sync causes premature failover, config sync failure, and unexpected reboot
CSCwn27872 Big chunk of Memory of around 25KB is being allocated on Stack in "eigrp_interface_ioctl" API
CSCwn71596 Intf Link down (Init, mac-link-down) seen - EtherChannel Membership in Down/Down/Down state after unplug/replug of the cable
CSCwn92248 FPR2100 & FPR1100: Port-channel interfaces flap with LACP
CSCwo00332 Firepower wiping SSL trustpoint config after reloading.
CSCwo24856 9K block depletion causing slowdown of all traffic through firewall
CSCwo31094 Virtual ASA Traceback and Reload Caused by Disk Access Issues with NFS Enabled
CSCwo33815 FMC: Deployment takes longer than expected when removing SNMP hosts from Platform Settings
CSCwo35938 IPv6 Management communication is lost due to a missing management-only multicast route.
CSCwo58260 Add "built" and "teardown" messages for the GRE | IPinIP connections to the Lina syslog
CSCwo60609 DNS doctoring not working correctly if the doctoring rule is of type dynamic and has any interface
CSCwo79028 Post-Failover FQDN Resolution Deferred Until Next DNS Poll Interval
CSCwo79798 Cryptochecksum changed after reloading.
CSCwo87763 ASA/FTD: Primary standby unit becomes Active after reload in HA set up
CSCwo88204 ASA/FTD traceback and reload triggered by the Smart Call Home process in sch_dispatch_to_url.
CSCwo88518 If command replication fails to any nodes in cluster, send kick the node out from cluster to fmc
CSCwo89233 Command replication failure to cluster nodes on command commit noconfirm revert-save after access-list, additional debugs
CSCwo91436 FPR 4125 Multi instance: High Snort and System Core CPU Usage (100%) Triggering FMC Critical Alerts
CSCwo98752 Traceback in threadname DATAPATH while trying to re-join cluster.
CSCwp08772 ASA: tls-proxy maximum-session command error
CSCwp11382 ASA/FTD: the ssl trust-point command deleted after a reload
CSCwp16739 ASA crashinfo files not generated on FP4200 devices
CSCwp17700 Syslog format is not properly printed when EMBLEM format is enabled at least in one syslog host
CSCwp22214 Multiple mail drops and enq failures are seen while traffic is going through the box.
CSCwp26815 CPU usage by "WebVPN Timer Process" on standby ASA device
CSCwp29401 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software SAML Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
CSCwp33410 dmesg and kern.log file flooded with Tx Queue=0 logs
CSCwp37284 "CSRF Token Mismatch" error seen when users click logout from Clientless VPN page
CSCwp39319 ASA Memory leak while processing large CRLs.
CSCwp67356 HA state should not transition from ColdStandby to Active
CSCwp89969 Prolonged delays in firewall restart/reboot completion
CSCwp90780 Restoring .tgz context file causes allocated interfaces to be removed from 'system' configuration
CSCwp97862 If failover IPSEC PSK is 78 characters or greater HA breaks with "Could not set failover ipsec pre-shared-key"
CSCwq01516 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software IKEv2 DoS Vulnerability
CSCwq02055 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Services Client-Side Request Smuggling Vulnerability
CSCwq17612 Misleading "failover reset" log printed on console when reload triggered by HA.
CSCwq24081 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance Software SSH Partial Private Key Authentication Bypass Vulnerability


Last edited on: March 5, 2026