CVE-2015-6287 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) 8.0.6-078 and 8.0.6-115 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a flood of TCP traffic that leads to DNS resolution delays, aka Bug IDs CSCur32005 and CSCur07907.

Published: 2015-09-14

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_virtual_appliance:8.0.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_virtual_appliance:8.0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_virtual_appliance:8.0_base:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-6229	Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) 8.0.6-078 and 8.0.6-115 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a flood of TCP traffic that leads to DNS resolution delays, aka Bug IDs CSCur32005 and CSCur07907.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00724.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=40846
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76677
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033529

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2015-09-14T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:15:13.278Z

Reserved: 2015-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-6287

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-09-14T01:59:05.433

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-6287

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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