CVE-2015-6421 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2015-6421

cifs-ao in the CIFS optimization functionality on Cisco Wide Area...

Vulnerability Description

cifs-ao in the CIFS optimization functionality on Cisco Wide Area Application Service (WAAS) and Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) devices 5.x before 5.3.5d and 5.4 and 5.5 before 5.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and device reload) via crafted network traffic, aka Bug ID CSCus85330.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

wide area application services
Vulnerable Versions:
5.1.1, 5.1.1a, 5.1.1b, 5.1.1c, 5.1.1d, 5.2.1, 5.2_base, 5.3.1, 5.3.3, 5.3.5, 5.3.5a, 5.3.5b, 5.3.5c

Timeline

Official Publish: January 27th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.