PT-2016-6881 · Cisco · Web Security Appliance+1

Published 2016-09-17 · Updated 2017-07-30 · CVE-2016-6407

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco AsyncOS versions prior to 9.5.0-444 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically link saturation, by making many HTTP requests for overlapping byte ranges simultaneously.

Recommendations For Cisco AsyncOS versions prior to 9.5.0-444, update to version 9.5.0-444 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6407

Affected Products

Cisco Asyncos

Web Security Appliance

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6407 · Security Note
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160914-wsa · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6407 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1036829 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92955 · Note