What is CVE-2016-1369?

CVE-2016-1369 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Asa With Firepower Services, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-05.

How severe is CVE-2016-1369?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Cisco Asa With Firepower Services

CVE-2016-1369

The Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5585-X FirePOWER Security Services Processor (SSP) module for Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services 5.3.1 through 6.0.0 misconfigures kernel logging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption, and inspection outage or module outage) via a flood of crafted IP traffic, aka Bug ID CSCux19922.

Published 2016-05-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cisco Asa With Firepower Services — versions 5.3.1, 5.3.1.1, 5.4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160504… (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1035743 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1369?: CVE-2016-1369 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Asa With Firepower Services, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-05.
How severe is CVE-2016-1369?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.