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CVE-2019-1817

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CVE-2019-1817

Published: May 3, 2019

Modified: Nov 19, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

8.6

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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