PT-2016-6932 · Cisco · Cisco Firepower System

Published 2016-11-19 · Updated 2016-12-06 · CVE-2016-6460

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:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Firepower System Software versions 5.4.0.2 through 6.2.0

Description A vulnerability in the FTP Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface (REST API) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass FTP malware detection rules and download malware over an FTP connection. This issue affects devices with a file policy that has malware block configured for FTP connections.

Recommendations For versions 5.4.0.2 through 6.2.0, update to a fixed release to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability, however, version 6.0.0 is mentioned as both affected and fixed, which may indicate that the fix is included in a later patch or hotfix for version 6.0.0.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-254

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6460

Affected Products

Cisco Firepower System

References · 4

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161116-fss · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6460 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6460 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94359 · Note