PT-2016-6911 · Cisco · Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Published 2016-10-27 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2016-6437

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) versions 5.3(5) through 5.3(5g), 6.1(1), 6.2(1)

Description A vulnerability in the SSL session cache management could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to high consumption of disk space, resulting in performance degradation.

Recommendations For versions 5.3(5) through 5.3(5g), update to version 5.3(5g)1. For version 6.1(1), update to version 6.2(2.32) or later. For version 6.2(1), update to version 6.2(2.32).

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6437

Affected Products

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6437 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161012-waas · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6437 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93524 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1037002 · Note