VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6376

medium
Published 2016-09-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (wIPS) feature on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices before 8.0.140.0, 8.1.x and 8.2.x before 8.2.121.0, and 8.3.x before 8.3.102.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device restart) via a malformed wIPS packet, aka Bug ID CSCuz40263.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160831-wlc-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.0_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.1.59.24
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.1.105.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.1.111.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.78.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.116.21
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.150.6
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.150.10
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.171.5
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.171.6
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.185.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.193.5
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.2.195.10
ciscowireless_lan_controller3.6.0e
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.108
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.155.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.155.5
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.179.8
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.179.11
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.196
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.206.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.217.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.0.219.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.1.171.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.1.181.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.1.185.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.1_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.61.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.99.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.112.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.117.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.130.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.173.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.174.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.176.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2.182.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller4.2_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.0.148.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.0.148.2
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.1.151.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.1.152.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.1.160.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.2.157.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller5.2.169.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller6.0_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.0_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.1_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.2_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.3.101.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.3.103.8
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.3.112
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.3_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.4.1.1
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.4.100
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.4.100.60
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.4.110.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.4.121.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.4_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.5.102.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.5.102.11
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.5_base
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.6.1.62
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.6.100.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.6.110.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.6.120.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller7.6.130.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.0.30220.385
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.72.140
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.100
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.115.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.120.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.0.121.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.1.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.1.104.37
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.1.111.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.1.122.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller8.1.130.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_6.0182.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_6.0188.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_6.0196.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_6.0199.4
ciscowireless_lan_controller_6.0202.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.098.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.098.218
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.0116.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.0220.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.0240.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.0250.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.0252.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.191.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.2103.0
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.41.19
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.41.54
ciscowireless_lan_controller_7.4140.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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