CVE-2016-1440

MEDIUM

Cisco Web Security Appliance - Denial of Service via FTP Control Connection Termination

Title source: llm

Description

The proxy process on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices through 9.1.0-070 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by establishing an FTP session and then improperly terminating the control connection after a file transfer, aka Bug ID CSCuy43468.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036188

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_cisco

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160627-wsa

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0125

EPSS Percentile 66.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (37)

cisco/web_security_appliance 5.6.0-623

cisco/web_security_appliance 6.0.0-000

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.1.0

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.1.1

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.1.2

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.1.3

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.1.4

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.5.0-000

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.5.0-825

cisco/web_security_appliance 7.5.1-000

... and 27 more

Published Jul 02, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026