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Cisco Web Security Appliance File Transfer Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
CISCO
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
6 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
A vulnerability in the local File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service on the Cisco AsyncOS for Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Insight
Insight
The vulnerability is due to lack of throttling of FTP connections. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a flood of FTP traffic to the local FTP service on the targeted device.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to version 10.0.0-237 or later.