What is CVE-2016-1288?

CVE-2016-1288 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Web Security Appliance, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-1288?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Cisco Web Security Appliance

CVE-2016-1288

The HTTPS Proxy feature in Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.3-051 and 9.x before 9.0.0-485 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) by leveraging certain intranet connectivity and sending a malformed HTTPS request, aka Bug ID CSCuu24840.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.017 (75.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Cisco Web_security_appliance — versions 9.0.0-193, 8.5.0-497
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

psirt@cisco.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CISCO, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1288?: CVE-2016-1288 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Web Security Appliance, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-1288?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.