PT-2017-12431 · Akamai+1 · Akamai Connect+1

Published 2017-10-05 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-12256

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) Appliances (affected versions not specified)

Description A denial-of-service (DoS) condition can be caused by an unauthenticated, remote attacker due to file-handling inefficiencies in the Akamai Connect feature. The attacker can exploit this by directing client systems to access a corrupted file that cannot be decompressed correctly, causing the device to crash or hang and resulting in a DoS condition that may require manual intervention to recover.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12256

Affected Products

Akamai Connect

Cisco Waas

References · 3

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171004-waas · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12256 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/101180 · Note