CVE-2016-1379 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1379?

CVE-2016-1379 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software, published on 28 May 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.0 through 9.5.1 mishandles IPsec error processing, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted (1) LAN-to-LAN or (2) Remote Access VPN tunnel packets, aka Bug ID CSCuv70576.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1379?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1379?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-1379 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-2016-1379 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1379 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software

• CVE-2025-20333 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.9
• CVE-2016-6366 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SNMP Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-20349 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2024-20353 Cisco ASA and FTD Denial of Service Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2016-6367 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) CLI Remote Code Execution Exploited High 7.8

All Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3774-mw38-qfwj.