CVE-2016-6376

medium Cisco
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 46% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: September 2, 2016 (3541 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Cisco
Source: NVD

Description

The Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (wIPS) feature on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices before 8.0.140.0, 8.1.x and 8.2.x before 8.2.121.0, and 8.3.x before 8.3.102.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device restart) via a malformed wIPS packet, aka Bug ID CSCuz40263.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

cisco wireless lan controllercisco wireless lan controller 6.0cisco wireless lan controller 7.0cisco wireless lan controller 7.1cisco wireless lan controller 7.2cisco wireless lan controller 7.4

References

🔗 tools.cisco.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 tools.cisco.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com