CVE-2016-6416

medium
Published 2016-10-05 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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
5.9

Description

The FTP service in Cisco AsyncOS on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices 9.6.0-000 through 9.9.6-026, Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices 9.0.0-162 through 9.5.0-444, and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of FTP traffic, aka Bug IDs CSCuz82907, CSCuz84330, and CSCuz86065.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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 ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-004
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-031
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-033
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-103
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.5.0
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.6.0
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.6.0-000
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.6.0-042
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.6.0-051
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.7.1-066
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.9.6-026
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.9_base
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.0.0-162
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1.0-000
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1.0-070
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1_base
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.5.0-235
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.5.0-284
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.5.0-444
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.5_base

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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