VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1381

high
Published 2016-05-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Memory leak in Cisco AsyncOS 8.5 through 9.0 before 9.0.1-162 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTTP file-range request for cached content, aka Bug ID CSCuw97270.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.5.0-497
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.5.0.000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.5.1-021
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.5.2-024
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.5.2-027
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.5.3-055
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0.0-193
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0_base
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1_base

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.