CVE-2017-6628

medium
Published 2017-05-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.8

Description

A vulnerability in SMART-SSL Accelerator functionality for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 6.2.1, 6.2.1a, and 6.2.3a could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition where the WAN optimization could stop functioning while the process restarts. The vulnerability is due to a Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) alert being incorrectly handled when in a specific SSL/TLS connection state. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing a SMART-SSL connection through the targeted device. The attacker would then send a crafted stream of SSL/TLS traffic. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition where WAN optimization could stop processing traffic for a short period of time. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvb71133.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
77%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@cisco.com — https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170503-waas

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ciscowide_area_application_services6.2.1
ciscowide_area_application_services6.2.1a
ciscowide_area_application_services6.2.3a

References

CWEs

CWE-399 CWE-755

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