Denial of service in Cisco Web Security Appliance - CVE-2016-6360

 

Denial of service in Cisco Web Security Appliance - CVE-2016-6360

Published: October 27, 2016 / Updated: April 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1100
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Web Security Appliance

Detailed vulnerability 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.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6360

Update to version 10.0.0-233.

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