CVE-2016-6469

HIGH

Cisco Web Security Appliance - Denial of Service via HTTP URL Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in HTTP URL parsing of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability due to the proxy process unexpectedly restarting. More Information: CSCvb04312. Known Affected Releases: 9.0.1-162 9.1.1-074. Known Fixed Releases: 10.1.0-129 9.1.2-010.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94775

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0159
EPSS Percentile 73.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (3)
cisco/web_security_appliance 9.0.1-162
cisco/web_security_appliance 9.1.1-074
n/a/Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)
Published Dec 14, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026