VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1440

medium
Published 2016-07-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

The proxy process on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices through 9.1.0-070 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by establishing an FTP session and then improperly terminating the control connection after a file transfer, aka Bug ID CSCuy43468.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
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_appliance5.6.0-623
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance6.0.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.1.0
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.1.1
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.1.2
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.1.3
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.1.4
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.5.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.5.0-825
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.5.1-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.5.2-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.5.2-hp2-303
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.7.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.7.0-608
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.7.1-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.7.5-835
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.5
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.5_hp1
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.6
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.6-078
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.6-119
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.7
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.7-142
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.0.8-mr-113
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_appliance8.8.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.8.0-085
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0.0-193
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0_base
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1.0-070

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.