CVE-2016-6407 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2016-6407

Cisco AsyncOS through 9.5.0-444 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices...

Vulnerability Description

Cisco AsyncOS through 9.5.0-444 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (link saturation) by making many HTTP requests for overlapping byte ranges simultaneously, aka Bug ID CSCuz27219.

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

web security appliance
Vulnerable Versions:
5.6.0-623, 6.0.0-000, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.5.0-000, 7.5.0-825, 7.5.1-000, 7.5.2-000, 7.5.2-hp2-303, 7.7.0-000, 7.7.0-608, 7.7.1-000, 7.7.5-835, 8.0.0-000, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.6-078, 8.0.6-119, 8.0.7, 8.0.7-142, 8.0.8-mr-113, 8.5.0-497, 8.5.0.000, 8.5.1-021, 8.5.2-024, 8.5.2-027, 8.5.3-055, 8.8.0-000, 8.8.0-085, 9.0.0-193, 9.0_base, 9.1.0-000, 9.1.0-070, 9.1_base, 9.5.0-235, 9.5.0-284, 9.5.0-444, 9.5_base

Timeline

Official Publish: September 17th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 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.