Denial of service in Cisco Web Security Appliance



| Updated: 2018-04-05
Risk Low
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2016-6360
CWE-ID CWE-119
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Cisco Web Security Appliance
Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers

Vendor Cisco Systems, Inc

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.

1) Denial of service

EUVDB-ID: #VU1100

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6360

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause partial DoS conditions on the target system.
The weakness is due to input validation flaw. By sending a specially crafted Kava Archive (JAR) file, a remote attacker can trigger the Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) service to restart after scanning that file.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Mitigation

Update to version 10.0.0-233.

Vulnerable software versions

Cisco Web Security Appliance: 8.8.0 085 - 10.0.0 233

CPE2.3 External links

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-esawsa3


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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