VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9209

medium
Published 2016-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

A vulnerability in TCP processing in Cisco FirePOWER system software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to download files that would normally be blocked. Affected Products: The following Cisco products are vulnerable: Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500-X Series with FirePOWER Services, Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks - 7000 Series Appliances, Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks - 8000 Series Appliances, FirePOWER 7000 Series Appliances, FirePOWER 8000 Series Appliances, FirePOWER Threat Defense for Integrated Services Routers (ISRs), Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) for Blue Coat X-Series, Sourcefire 3D System Appliances, Virtual Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPSv) for VMware. More Information: CSCvb20102. Known Affected Releases: 2.9.7.10.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
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 ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.3.0
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.0
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.1
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.2
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.3
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.4
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.5
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.6
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance5.4.1.7
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance6.0.0
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance6.0.1
cisco ciscofirepower_services_for_adaptive_security_appliance6.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-254

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

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