Skip to content
Sign in
CVE-2019-18178.6HighCWE-20

CVE-2019-1817: Cisco Web Security Appliance Malformed Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)

Vendor fix available · Affected: Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

1.8%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
78th percentile
050100

Higher than 78% of scored CVEs

8.6HighCVSS 3.0
LowHigh

DescriptionCVE.org

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 products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

  • Cisco · Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA)before 11.5.2-020; before 11.7.0-406

On the Atlas

Every published CVE is on the CyberSIXT Atlas, grouped by weakness, vendor and month.

Open the Atlas
Exploitation
Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
Cisco
Published
May 2019

CoverageNo articles yet

No CyberSIXT article names CVE-2019-1817 yet, so there is no coverage timeline, action brief or change log for it. Everything on this page comes from the public CVE record, CISA KEV, EPSS and the nuclei template index. Search the archive or see the CVEs in the news.

References

Updated AboutDevelopersSign in