What is CVE-2019-1672?

CVE-2019-1672 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Web Security Appliance (Wsa), classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2019-02-08.

How severe is CVE-2019-1672?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Web Security Appliance (Wsa)

CVE-2019-1672

A vulnerability in the Decryption Policy Default Action functionality of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured drop policy and allow traffic onto the network that shou…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.016 (73.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Cisco Web Security Appliance (Wsa) — versions 10.1, 10.5
Cisco Web_security_appliance — versions 10.1.0-204, 10.5.2-072, 11.5.1-fcs-115

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CISCO, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
psirt@cisco.com (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-1672?: CVE-2019-1672 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Web Security Appliance (Wsa), classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2019-02-08.
How severe is CVE-2019-1672?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.