CONDUIT TICKET REPORT

Finding Summary

Short description

[TITAN] Medium — legacy_eol on cisco-asa-fw-edge-01

Severity

Medium

Priority

3 - Moderate

Resource

cisco-asa-fw-edge-01

Resource type

Cisco::ASA::5525X

Cloud

Multi

Subscription / Account

Resource group: dc-prod-east

Resource group / Project

dc-prod-east

The Security Finding

Cisco ASA 9.1(7)32 firmware detected on perimeter firewall — past end-of-life 2022-08-31 (601 days). No further security patches will be issued. Exposed CVE-2024-20481 unpatchable. Fails NIST 800-53 SC-7, CIS Controls v8 Control 12, PCI DSS 1.1.

ITIL Change Management Fields

Justification

Medium: Cisco ASA 9.1(7)32 firmware detected on perimeter firewall — past end-of-life 2022-08-31 (601 days). No further security patches will be issued. Exposed CVE-2024-20481 unpatchable. Fails NIST 800-53 SC-7, CIS Controls v8 Control 12, PCI DSS 1.1.

Implementation Plan

1. Pre-change snapshot captured by TITAN (auto-rollback available).
2. Execute fix command:
   Replace with Cisco Firepower 2100 series or Palo Alto PA-400 (current firmware). Interim: subscribe to Cisco PSIRT advisories, compensating IDS behind the firewall.
3. TITAN FORGE verifies the fix was applied.
4. Post-change rescan by TITAN SCOUT — finding must no longer appear.
5. Close ticket with Successful close_code.

Risk & Impact Analysis

Risk level: MEDIUM risk — weaker control, should be hardened.
Business impact if unremediated: Control weakness that compounds with other gaps.
Scope: single resource (cisco-asa-fw-edge-01).
Blast radius: change is idempotent; pre-change snapshot captured by TITAN; auto-rollback available if rescan fails.
Finding detail: Cisco ASA 9.1(7)32 firmware detected on perimeter firewall — past end-of-life 2022-08-31 (601 days). No further security patches will be issued. Exposed CVE-2024-20481 unpatchable. Fails NIST 800-53 S

Backout / Rollback Plan

1. TITAN auto-captured snapshot of cisco-asa-fw-edge-01 before change (baseline: titan-legacy-demo-20260422T201927Z).
2. If post-change rescan still shows the finding OR a new issue appears within 15 min:
   a. TITAN FORGE fires rollback automatically using stored snapshot.
   b. Incident reopens and escalates to on-call.
3. Manual rollback command path (human override) is documented in close notes.

Test Plan

1. TITAN SCOUT rescans cisco-asa-fw-edge-01 immediately after FORGE applies the change.
2. PASS criteria: the specific finding no longer appears in SCOUT results.
3. PASS criteria: no new CRITICAL or HIGH findings introduced by the change.
4. Automated compliance check: HIPAA/PCI/SOC2 controls re-evaluated.
5. If any check fails, backout plan fires automatically.

Recommended Fix

Replace with Cisco Firepower 2100 series or Palo Alto PA-400 (current firmware). Interim: subscribe to Cisco PSIRT advisories, compensating IDS behind the firewall.

Compliance Mapping

Routing Metadata

Assignment group

security_engineering

Change type

Normal

Approval required

No

Planned start

2026-04-22 19:45:27

Planned end

2026-04-22 21:45:27

Scan ID

titan-legacy-demo-20260422T201927Z

Generated at

2026-04-22T19:31:27+00:00

Opened

2026-04-22 19:31:27

Closed

2026-04-22 19:31:27

Close code

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Attached Security Ticket

Cisco ASA 9.1(7)32 firmware detected on perimeter firewall — past end-of-life 2022-08-31 (601 days). No further security patches will be issued. Exposed CVE-2024-20481 unpatchable. Fails NIST 800-53 SC-7, CIS Controls v8 Control 12, PCI DSS 1.1.

Recommended Fix: Replace with Cisco Firepower 2100 series or Palo Alto PA-400 (current firmware). Interim: subscribe to Cisco PSIRT advisories, compensating IDS behind the firewall.

AI Close Notes

TITAN CONDUIT opened this medium legacy_eol ticket and assigned it to the security_engineering group for review. STATE: ASSIGNED — awaiting human action. Per TITAN AI policy, configuration changes are NEVER auto-applied and tickets are NEVER auto-closed by TITAN. The assigned group reviews the recommended fix, schedules an approved maintenance window, applies the fix manually, validates via SCOUT rescan, and closes this ticket themselves. TITAN documents and routes — the human owns the change from here.