Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Service
CVE-2015-6421

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Cisco
Status
Wide Area Application Services
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 January 2016

Summary

The CIFS optimization functionality on Cisco Wide Area Application Service (WAAS) and Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) devices is susceptible to a denial of service attack. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted network traffic that consumes excessive resources, potentially leading to device reloads and service interruption. This issue affects versions of Cisco WAAS and vWAAS prior to 5.3.5d for WAAS and 5.5.3 for vWAAS.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034831
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecur...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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