QID 316996

Date Published: 2021-07-12

QID 316996: Cisco Web Security Appliance Vulnerability in Open Secure Sockets Layer (OpenSSL) Affecting Cisco Products (cisco-sa-openssl-2021-GHY28dJd)

Cisco Web Security Appliance is impacted by CVE-2021-3449, OpenSSL NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability
that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system.

Affected Products
Cisco Web Security Appliance following releases:
Prior to 12.0.3-005
From 12.5 Prior to 12.5.2-007
From 14.0 Prior to 14.0.1-040

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated):
The Qid checks for the Vulnerable version of Cisco WSA in the response of "version" command.

Successful exploitation could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash a TLS server resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.4 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.8 severity.
  • Solution

    Customers are advised to refer to cisco-sa-openssl-2021-GHY28dJd for more information.

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
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