VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6436

medium
Published 2016-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HostScan Engine 3.0.08062 through 3.1.14018 in the Cisco Host Scan package, as used in ASA Web VPN, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL, aka Bug ID CSCuz14682.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.0.08062
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.0.08066
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.01065
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.02016
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.02026
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.02040
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.02043
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.03103
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.03104
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.04060
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.04063
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.04075
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.04082
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05152
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05160
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05163
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05170
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05178
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05182
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.05183
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.06073
cisco ciscohostscan_engine3.1.14018

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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