Vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services

CVE-2016-6437

A vulnerability in the SSL session cache management of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to high consumption of disk space. The user would see a performance degradation. More Information: CSCva03095. Known Affected Releases: 5.3(5), 6.1(1), 6.2(1). Known Fixed Releases: 5.3(5g)1, 6.2(2.32).

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2016-6437: held from 0.017 to 0.017.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Cisco Wide Area Application Services — versions 5.3.1, 5.3.3, 5.3.5
  • Cisco Wide Area Application Services (Waas) Before 5.3(5g)1 And 6.x 6.2(2.32) — versions Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) before 5.3(5g)1 and 6.x before 6.2(2.32)

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6437?
CVE-2016-6437 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2016-10-27.
How severe is CVE-2016-6437?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.