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CVE-2019-1817

Cisco Web Security Appliance Malformed Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 11.5.2-020, 11.7.0-406
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A vulnerability in the web proxy functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of HTTP and HTTPS requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed HTTP or HTTPS request to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a restart of the web proxy process, resulting in a temporary DoS condition.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)

    fixed in 11.5.2-020; fixed in 11.7.0-406

References 1

tools.cisco.com