CVE-2016-6393
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
The AAA service in Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4 and 15.0 through 15.6 and IOS XE 2.1 through 3.18 and 16.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a failed SSH connection attempt that is mishandled during generation of an error-log message, aka Bug ID CSCuy87667.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160928-aaados
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93196
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036914
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-287-04
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160928-aaados
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93196
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036914
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-287-04
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.