CVE-2019-1886 vulnerability in Cisco Products
Published on July 4, 2019
Cisco Web Security Appliance HTTPS Certificate Denial of Service Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the HTTPS decryption feature of Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) server certificates. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by installing a malformed certificate in a web server and sending a request to it through the Cisco WSA. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the proxy process on an affected device.
Weakness Type
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
Products Associated with CVE-2019-1886
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Affected Versions
Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA):- Version unspecified and below 10.5.5-005 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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