CVE-2009-0059 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2009-0059

The Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), Cisco Catalyst 6500 Wireless...

Vulnerability Description

The Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), Cisco Catalyst 6500 Wireless Services Module (WiSM), and Cisco Catalyst 3750 Integrated Wireless LAN Controller with software 4.x before 4.2.176.0 and 5.2.x before 5.2.157.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a web authentication (aka WebAuth) session that includes a malformed POST request to login.html.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

4400 wireless lan controller, catalyst 3750 series integrated wireless lan controller, catalyst 6500 series integrated wireless lan controller, catalyst 7600 series wireless lan controller, wireless lan controller software
Vulnerable Versions:
4.1, 4.2, 5.2

Timeline

Official Publish: February 5th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.