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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105353 |
Category: | CISCO |
Title: | Cisco Web Security Appliance Malformed HTTP Response Denial of Service Vulnerability |
Summary: | Cisco Web Security Appliance contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition. Updates are not available. |
Description: | Summary: Cisco Web Security Appliance contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition. Updates are not available. Vulnerability Insight: The vulnerability is due to the improper handling of a malformed HTTP server responses. An unauthenticated, remote attacker with a privileged network position could exploit the vulnerability by conducting a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and supplying malformed HTTP server responses to the vulnerable device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to improperly close TCP connections and fail to free memory resources, resulting in a partial DoS condition. Vulnerability Impact: An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a DoS condition on the targeted device. Affected Software/OS: Cisco WSA version 8.0.7-151 Solution: No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one. CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-6290 BugTraq ID: 76687 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76687 Cisco Security Advisory: 20150909 Cisco Web Security Appliance Malformed HTTP Response Denial of Service Vulnerability http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=40896 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033530 |
Copyright | This script is Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH |
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