PT-2016-4790 · Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance

Published 2016-07-02 · Updated 2017-09-01 · CVE-2016-1440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) versions prior to 9.1.0-070

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming CPU resources on the device. This can be achieved by establishing an FTP session and then improperly terminating the control connection after a file transfer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 9.1.0-070, update to version 9.1.0-070 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1440

Affected Products

Cisco Web Security Appliance

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1440 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1440 · Vendor Advisory
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160627-wsa · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1036188 · Note