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Cisco ASA: CVE-2016-1385: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance XML Parser Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 26, 2016
Added
Jun 1, 2016
Modified
Dec 21, 2022

Description

The XML parser in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software through 9.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (instability, memory consumption, or device reload) by leveraging (1) administrative access or (2) Clientless SSL VPN access to provide a crafted XML document, aka Bug ID CSCut14209.

Solution

cisco-asa-update-latest
Title
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