Vulnerability Bulletins

Cisco Web Security Appliance Native FTP Denial of Service Vulnerability

   
Affected software Cisco
 
A vulnerability in the native passthrough FTP functionality of the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a partial denial of service (DoS) condition due to high CPU utilization.The vulnerability occurs when the FTP client terminates the FTP control connection when the data transfer is complete. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by initiating FTP connections through the WSA. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause high CPU

More info:

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151130-wsa?vs_f=Cisco%20Security%20Advisory&vs_cat=Security%20Intelligence&vs_type=RSS&vs_p=Cisco%20Web%20Security%20Appliance%20Native%20FTP%20Denial%20of%20Service%20Vu