Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) CLI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6367)
Severity: high · Patch status: patched · Since 2022-05-24 · CVE-2016-6367
A vulnerability in the command-line interface (CLI) parser of Cisco ASA software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to create a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or potentially execute code. CISA added CVE-2016-6367 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 24, 2022, which means attackers are exploiting it in the wild.
What to do
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- US federal agencies must remediate by Jun 14, 2022 (BOD 22-01); treat that as the outer limit.
Sources
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