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CVE-2016-6376

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (wIPS) feature on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices before 8.0.140.0, 8.1.x and 8.2.x before 8.2.121.0, and 8.3.x before 8.3.102.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device restart) via a malformed wIPS packet, aka Bug ID CSCuz40263.

Affected products

• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller: 3.0_base, 3.1.59.24, 3.1.105.0, 3.1.111.0, 3.2.78.0, 3.2.116.21 (+72)
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 6.0: 182.0, 188.0, 196.0, 199.4, 202.0
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 7.0: 98.0, 98.218, 116.0, 220.0, 240.0, 250.0 (+1)
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 7.1: 91.0
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 7.2: 103.0
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 7.4: 1.19, 1.54, 140.0

References

• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160831-wlc-2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92716
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036720
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160831-wlc-2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92716
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036720

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