CVE-2016-1288

5.3 mediumEPSS 1.7%

Medium (5.3) in cisco web security appliance. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The HTTPS Proxy feature in Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.3-051 and 9.x before 9.0.0-485 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) by leveraging certain intranet connectivity and sending a malformed HTTPS request, aka Bug ID CSCuu24840.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2016-03-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

cisco:web_security_appliance

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-wsa
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035163
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-wsa
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035163

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