Cisco Wide Area Application Services Akamai Connect data processing
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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Akamai Connect. The manipulation as part of a Application leads to a data processing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-19. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
A vulnerability in the Akamai Connect feature of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to certain file-handling inefficiencies of the affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by directing client systems to access a corrupted file that the client systems cannot decompress correctly. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to crash or hang unexpectedly and result in a DoS condition that may require manual intervention to regain normal operating conditions. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve82472.
The bug was discovered 10/04/2017. The weakness was released 10/05/2017 with Cisco as cisco-sa-20171004-waas as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-12256 since 08/03/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/15/2021).
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9
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VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Exploiting
Class: Data processingCWE: CWE-19
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/03/2017 🔍10/04/2017 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco-sa-20171004-waas
Researcher: Cisco
Organization: Cisco
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-12256 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 101180 - Cisco Wide Area Application Services CVE-2017-12256 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 10/05/2017 15:18Updated: 01/15/2021 14:34
Changes: 10/05/2017 15:18 (60), 11/22/2019 09:29 (5), 01/15/2021 14:34 (2)
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