SB2017092102 - Denial of service in Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Published: September 21, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017092102
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12250)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the HTTP web interface for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) due to input validation of user-supplied input parameters. a remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and cause an HTTP Application Optimization (AO) related process to restart.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.