VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9193

high
Published 2016-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

A vulnerability in the malicious file detection and blocking features of Cisco Firepower Management Center and Cisco FireSIGHT System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass malware detection mechanisms on an affected system. Affected Products: Cisco Firepower Management Center and FireSIGHT System Software are affected when they are configured to use a file policy that has the Block Malware action. More Information: CSCvb27494. Known Affected Releases: 6.0.1.1 6.1.0.

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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.0
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.0.0
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.0.1
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.1
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.0.1.1
cisco ciscofiresight_system_software6.1.0
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center6.0.0
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center6.0.0.0
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center6.0.0.1
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center6.0.1
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center6.0.1.1
cisco ciscosecure_firewall_management_center6.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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