CVE-2010-4677 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the emWEB daemon on Cisco ASA devices by requesting documents with spaces in their names, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2010-4677?
CVE-2010-4677 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, published on 7 Jan 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
emWEB on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software before 8.2(3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a request for a document whose name contains space characters, aka Bug ID CSCsy08416.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4677?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Asa 5500.
How do I fix CVE-2010-4677?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4677 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2010-4677 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4677 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
- CVE-2012-0358 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2012-4661 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2010-4675 Auth bypass in n/a
- CVE-2010-4680 Security feature bypass in n/a
- CVE-2011-3298 Auth bypass in n/a
All Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance vulnerabilities
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cxw8-qqh2-7jcv.