CVE-2016-1369 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2016-1369

The Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5585-X FirePOWER Security Services Processor...

Vulnerability Description

The Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5585-X FirePOWER Security Services Processor (SSP) module for Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services 5.3.1 through 6.0.0 misconfigures kernel logging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption, and inspection outage or module outage) via a flood of crafted IP traffic, aka Bug ID CSCux19922.

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

asa with firepower services
Vulnerable Versions:
5.3.1, 5.3.1.1, 5.4.0, 5.4.0.1, 5.4.0.2, 5.4.0.3, 5.4.0.4, 5.4.0.5, 5.4.0.6, 5.4.1, 5.4.1.1, 5.4.1.2, 5.4.1.3, 5.4.1.4, 5.4.1.5, 5.4.05, 6.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 5th, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 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.