CVE-2016-1288

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA): 9.0.0-193, 8.5.0-497

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-wsa
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035163
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-wsa
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035163

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