PT-2016-6941 · Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance

Published 2016-12-14 · Updated 2017-01-05 · CVE-2016-6469

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 Web Security Appliance (WSA) versions 9.0.1-162 through 9.1.1-074

Description A vulnerability in HTTP URL parsing could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) due to the proxy process unexpectedly restarting.

Recommendations For versions 9.0.1-162 through 9.1.1-074, update to a fixed release, such as 10.1.0-129 or 9.1.2-010, to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6469

Affected Products

Cisco Web Security Appliance

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6469 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6469 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161207-wsa · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94775 · Note