Vulnslist

find the latest Cisco vulnerabilities

Cisco Web Security Appliance HTTP URL Denial of Service Vulnerability

cisco-sa-20161207-wsa · Medium · Published · Updated

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. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the HTTP URL string. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition due to the proxy process restarting. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161207-wsa

Workarounds

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

CVEsCVE-2016-6469
Cisco Bug IDsCSCvb04312
CVSS ScoreBase 5.0
Base 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C
Product Names From Source
Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Cisco Secure Web Appliance

Related Products

Product CVE Evidence
Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) CVE-2016-6469 Cisco OpenVuln
Cisco Secure Web Appliance CVE-2016-6469 Cisco OpenVuln