CVE-2015-6292

high

Published 2015-11-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The proxy-cache implementation in Cisco AsyncOS 8.0.x before 8.0.7-151, 8.1.x and 8.5.x before 8.5.2-004, 8.6.x and 8.7.x before 8.7.0-171-LD, and 8.8.x before 8.8.0-085 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via multiple proxy connections, aka Bug ID CSCus10922.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	web_security_appliance	`8.0.0-000`
cisco	web_security_appliance	`8.0.5`
cisco	web_security_appliance	`8.0.6`
cisco	web_security_appliance	`8.0.6-119`
cisco	web_security_appliance	`8.5.0-497`
cisco	web_security_appliance	`8.5.0.000`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.