Cisco Wireless LAN Controller up to 8.0.x HTTP Request resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller up to 8.0.x. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HTTP Request Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to resource management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2016-1363. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller up to 8.0.x (Wireless LAN Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the redirection functionality in Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Software 7.2 through 7.4 before 7.4.140.0(MD) and 7.5 through 8.0 before 8.0.115.0(ED) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP request, aka Bug ID CSCus25617.

The weakness was disclosed 04/21/2016 as CSCus25617 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-1363 since 01/03/2016. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 90893 (Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context c. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 38641 (Cisco Wireless LAN Controller HTTP Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20160420-htrd)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (90893) and SecurityFocus (BID 86761†). The entries VDB-82731 and VDB-82733 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 90893
Nessus Name: Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 803167
OpenVAS Name: Cisco Wireless LAN Controller HTTP Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: CSCus25617
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2016-1363 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-1363
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-82732
SecurityFocus: 86761
SecurityTracker: 1035633

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/22/2016 09:31
Updated: 10/15/2024 03:31
Changes: 04/22/2016 09:31 (59), 10/19/2018 08:13 (14), 07/26/2022 13:21 (4), 10/15/2024 03:31 (16)
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