PT-2015-7216 · Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance

Published 2015-12-01 · Updated 2017-09-14 · CVE-2015-6386

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) versions 8.0.7-142 and 8.5.1-021

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via FTP sessions in which the control connection is ended after data transfer.

Recommendations For version 8.0.7-142, update to a version that fixes this issue. For version 8.5.1-021, update to a version that fixes this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting FTP sessions to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6386

Affected Products

Cisco Web Security Appliance

References · 3

• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151130-wsa · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6386 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1034276 · Note