CVE-2016-6407 (GCVE-0-2016-6407)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-17 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29
VLAI
Summary
Cisco AsyncOS through 9.5.0-444 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (link saturation) by making many HTTP requests for overlapping byte ranges simultaneously, aka Bug ID CSCuz27219.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/Ci… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036829 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92955 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2016-09-14 00:00
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