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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.6 High

CVE-2019-1817

Cisco Web Security Appliance Malformed Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
cisco

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)

  • unspecified to < 11.5.2-020affected
  • unspecified to < 11.7.0-406affected

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